Chapter Twenty-Eight/Contending With Two Ferocious Beasts - 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 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 it sight. And it makes the earth and those who dwell in it worship the first wild beast, whose death-stroke got healed. And it performs great signs, so that it should even 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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