Chapter Twenty-EIght/Contending With Ferocious Beasts - The Image of the Wild Beast

 Is this two-horned wild beast as innocent as its lamblike horns would indicate? John goes on to say: "And it misleads those who dwell on the earth, because of the signs that granted it to perform in the sight of the wild beast, while it tells those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the wild beast that had the sword-stroke and yet revived. And there was granted it to give breath to the image of the wild beast, so that the image of the wild beast should both speak and cause to be killed all those who would not in any way worship the image of the wild beast." -REVELATION 13:14, 15. 

What is this "image of the wild beast", and what is its purpose? The purpose is to promote the worship of the seven-headed wild beast of which it is an image and thus in effect, to perpetuate the existence of the wild beast. This image is constructed after the seven-headed wild beast revives from its sword0-stroke, that is, after the end of the first world war. It is no lifeless statute, such as Nebuchadnezzar erected on the plains of Dura. (Daniel3:1) The two-horned wild beast breathes life into this image so that the image can live and playa role in world history. 

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