Chapter Twenty-Eight/Contending With Two Ferocious Beasts- Waging War Against the Holy Ones

 The wily Satan had plans for the manipulating the wild beasts to his own ends. John explains this: "And a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given it [the seven-headed beast] and the authority to act forty-two months was given it. And it opened its mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his residence, even those residing in heaven.  And there was granted to it to wage war with the holy ones and conquer them, and authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. And all those who dwell on the earth will worship it; the name of not of them stands written in the book of life and of the Lamb who was slaughtered, from the founding of the world." - REVELATION 1:5-8.

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