World War 3 - Seal 4
Rev 13:5-6 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
The Antichrist will form the 'One World Religion', which denies the divinity of Jesus, thereby blaspheming God and His holy name Jesus.
Phi 2:9-10 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
Rev 13:5-6 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
The Antichrist will form the 'One World Religion', which denies the divinity of Jesus, thereby blaspheming God and His holy name Jesus.
Phi 2:9-10 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
The Overcoming Saints
Rev 13:7 It was granted to him (1st. Beast - the Antichrist) to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
As soon as God allows the Antichrist to make war against the saints and to overcome them, immediately the Antichrist knows that he will not be able to deceive these saints, who are holy, wise, faithful to His words, knowledgeable of endtime events and full of love and truth.
They will rather become martyrs and receive better resurrections than submit to his deceptions and be condemned to Hades, thereby overcoming Satan and his wiles.
Rev 12:11 And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
2nd. Beast
Rev 13:11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
Out of the earth - from within the church.
Two horns like a lamb
like a lamb - like a godly and faithful Christian
two horns
Peter was the first Pope in Rome, the centre of Christianity, unfortunately Rome has stray from His words especially in idolatry.
In the 4th Century after the bible was translated from Greek to Latin, the Western Roman Empire adopted the Latin version, but the Eastern Empire maintained the original Greek version. The Great Schism in 1054 A.D officially divided the Christian Church into the Western Catholic Church headed by the Pope and the Eastern Orthodox Church headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch.
The 2 horns like a lamb likely represent both these churches.
The Protestant Church can be considered a branch (breakaway) of the Roman Catholic Church.
Spoke like a dragon - he speaks lies and promotes distorted doctrines and heresies just like the Devil (dragon). He is definitely the cohort of Satan - a wolf in sheep skin, a false christ or false prophet.
Composition of Christianity
Roman Catholic comprises 50%, whereas the Eastern Orthodox only 12%, and the others 38%.
The Pope with 50% of the Christian population is Satan's obvious target to become the 2nd. Beast.
Rev 13:12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
This 2nd Beast's main objective is to deceive Christians to worship the 1st. Beast (the Antichrist) and lose their salvation and be condemned to Hades.
Signs and Wonders
Rev 13:13-14a He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast...
With Satanic power given to him, he will make fire to come down from heaven to burn up abominable items (possibly the images and idols in the church), which will deceive Christians to believe that he is truly a servant of God.
Immediately, Christians and Jews will declare him 'Elijah the Prophet of fire'
Rev 13:15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
He will make a live image of the beast (TV or hologram - prophesied 2,000 years ago), and those who refuse to worship it will be killed.