The Vision of the Beast – Five details describing the beast are given:

Blasphemous names (verse 3); Had seven heads (verse 3); And ten horns (verse 3); The prostitute rides it (verse 7); The beast was, and is not, and will come up out of the bottomless pit (Abyss), and go to his destruction (verse 11). The careful Bible student will immediately recognize this beast even before examining the angel’s interpretation. In the first place, it is similar to the beast (of Rev. 13), and doubtless represents what all beasts used symbolically represent: either a king or a kingdom that opposes God’s will.