REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Two-Horned Wild Beast

 But now another wild beast comes onto the world scene.  John reports: "And I saw another wild beast ascending out of the earth, and it had two horns like a lamb, but it began speaking as a dragon.  And it exercises all the authority of the first wild beast in its sight. And it makes the earth and those who dwell in it worship the first wild beast, whose death-stroke got healed. And iti performs great signs, so that it should make fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the sight of mankind." (Revelation 13:11-13) This wild beast has two horns, indicating a partnership of two political powers.  And it is described  as coming out of the earth, not out of the sea.  Thus, it comes out of Satan's already established earthly system of things.  It must be a world power, already existing, that takes on a significant role during the Lord's day. 

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