Chapter Twenty-Eight/Contending With Two Ferocious Beasts - The Two-Horned Wild Beast - Continue

 What can it be? The Anglo -American World Power-the same as the seventh head of the first wild beast but in a special role! Isolating it in the vision as a separate wild beast helps us to see more clearly how it acts independently on the world stage. This figurative two-horned wild beast is made up to two coexisting, independent, but cooperating political powers, its two horns "like a lamb" suggests that it makes itself out to be mild and inoffensive, with an enlightened form of government to which all the world should turn. But it speaks "as a dragon" in that it uses pressure and threats and even outright violence wherever its version of rulership is not accepted. It has not encouraged submission to God's Kingdom under the rule of the Lamb of God, but rather to the interests of Satan, the great dragon. It has promoted nationalistic divisions and hatreds that add up to worshiping the first wild beast. 

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