Meanwhile, God’s holy people passionately and faithfully stand their ground. Anyone marked for prison goes straight to prison anyone pulling a sword goes down by the sword. Everyone on earth whose name was not written from the world’s foundation in the slaughtered Lamb’s Book of Life will worship the Beast.ĩ-10 Are you listening to this? They’ve made their bed now they must lie in it. It held absolute sway over all tribes and peoples, tongues and races. It was permitted to make war on God’s holy people and conquer them. It yelled blasphemies against God, blasphemed his Name, blasphemed his Church, especially those already dwelling with God in Heaven. It could do anything it wanted for forty-two months. They worshiped the Dragon who gave the Beast authority, and they worshiped the Beast, exclaiming, “There’s never been anything like the Beast! No one would dare go to war with the Beast!”ĥ-8 The Beast had a loud mouth, boastful and blasphemous. The whole earth was agog, gaping at the Beast.
The Dragon turned over its power to it, its throne and great authority.ģ-4 One of the Beast’s heads looked as if it had been struck a deathblow, and then healed. The Beast I saw looked like a leopard with bear paws and a lion’s mouth. It had ten horns and seven heads-on each horn a crown, and each head inscribed with a blasphemous name. 13 1-2 And the Dragon stood on the shore of the sea.