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Micah
5:5 And this man [Jesus Christ] shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
Look how Satan recalls this verse to manipulate it in his grand scheme to replicate it.

"And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains [7 hilled city of Rome], on which the woman sitteth [great harlot of religious Rome]. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition" (Rev. 17.9-11).

5 + 1 (6th) + 1 (7th) + 1 (8th). While God's "seven shepherds, and eight principle men" are good, Satan tries to replicate it. How?

The 5 fallen are the 5 fallen Caesars who died horrible deaths. At the time of John's writing Domitian reigned ("one is"). He was the 6th. The other yet to come is the forerunner to the Antichrist. This forerunner continues only for short time because he is murdered.

The beast that "was" is Nero. Nero "is not" alive at the time of John's writing of Revelation. "He is the eighth" who "was" one of the five which is Nero. Only Nero's name comes to 666. The Antichrist is "of the seven" because he is the worst of all of them. The Antichrist is a person who is the first person who will go to Hell when Jesus returns.