Revelation 13:3; One of His Heads Wounded to Death

Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 

One of the beast’s head was wounded but was healed. The world marvels at the way it was healed. He was raised from the dead. Here is permitted the imitation of Christ. He is therefore rightly called the Antichrist. He is against, opposed to Christ, or opposite of Christ, the fake. He is what Christ is not! The word “Christ” means the Messiah, the Anointed One. 

2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

The One prophesied in the Old Testament Scripture who will come and save Israel. The unbelieving Jews till today look for this coming Messiah. 

MacArthur analyzed, “A startling event will help Antichrist solidify his hold on the world. John saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. The interpretation of that phrase has been much debated. Some commentators argue that the head whose fatal wound was healed was a kingdom that will have been destroyed and restored. They see the death and resurrection miracle as the revival of the Roman Empire. Antichrist, they believe, will unite the countries occupying the territory of the ancient Roman Empire into a new empire. That revival of power will so amaze the rest of the nations that they will also submit to his rule.

There are several difficulties with that view, however. The most obvious problem is that while verse 3 speaks of one of the heads being slain, other passages specify that the beast himself is slain (13:12, 14; 17:8, 11). The personal pronoun in the phrase his fatal wound also indicates that one of the kings is in view, not the empire as a whole. Nor does it seem likely that merely reviving the Roman Empire would cause the worldwide astonishment and wonder mentioned in this verse. Finally, the phrase as if … slain is used in 5:6 of the Lord Jesus Christ, implying that it is also used of a person in this passage.

Granting that it is a person who dies and is restored to life, the question remains as to the identity of that person. The head whose fatal wound will be healed can only be the future Antichrist. Whether his death is real or fake (cf. v. 14; 2 Thess. 2:9) is not clear. It may be that Antichrist is really killed, and God, for His own purposes, allows him to be resurrected.”

 MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (2000). Revelation 12–22 (pp. 45–46). Chicago: Moody Press.