Chapters 13 and 17 might be companion pieces, both telling of 2 entities, beast and rider, that will in harmony perform the will of Satan in the last hours of times past. Certainly, if this is true, there is added significance that the woman "sits on many waters" (17:1), and the beast, correspondingly, rises "out of the sea" (13:1). So, though chapter 17 is widely frequently be