Revelation 17:16,17

The very kings who helped the harlot so they might share in her power actually hate her because of the power she exercises. God will use them to bring her to destruction when her sins are ripe. (Read Ruth 7:22; 1 Samuel 14:20; 2 Chronicles 20:22-25 to see how God can even make nations fight against themselves.) Hendriksen says the reaction of the horns is like that of Judas Iscariot who betrayed his Lord for thirty pieces of silver yet ended up throwing them away in revulsion when he realized what he had done. (Matthew 27:3-5) These kings now turn their power over to the beast, which Coffman sees as the eighth beast of verse 11, or the lawless one.