1 Then, I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns. On each head was a title challenging God.
2 The beast I saw looked like a leopard, with paws like a bear and a mouth like a lion. The dragon passed on his power, his throne and his great authority to the beast.
3 One of its heads seemed to be fatally wounded but this wound healed. The whole earth wondered and they followed the beast.
4 People prostrated themselves before the dragon who had given such authority to the beast and they prostrated themselves before the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who can oppose it?"
5 The beast was given speech and it spoke boastful and blasphemous words against God; it was allowed to wield its power for forty-two months.
6 It spoke blasphemies against God, his name and his sanctuary, that is, those who already dwell in heaven.
7 It was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. It was given authority over people of every tribe, language and nation;
8 this is why all the inhabitants of the earth will worship before it, those whose names have not been written in the book of life of the slain Lamb, since the foundation of the world.
9 Let anyone who has ears to hear, listen:
10 If your lot is the prison, to prison you will go; if your lot is to be killed by the sword, by the sword will you be slain. This is, for the holy ones, the time of endurance and faith.
11 Then I saw another beast rise out of the earth, with two horns like the Lamb but speaking like the dragon.
12 This second beast is totally at the service of the first one and enjoys its authority. So it makes the world and its inhabitants worship the first beast whose fatal wound has been healed.
13 It works great wonders, even making fire descend from heaven to earth, in the sight of all.
14 Through these great wonders which it is able to do on behalf of the beast, it deceives the inhabitants of the earth, persuading them to make a statue of the beast which, although wounded by the sword, is still alive.
15 It has been allowed to give a spirit to this statue; the statue of the beast speaks and those who refuse to worship it are killed.
16 So this second beast makes everyone - great and small, rich and poor, free and enslaved - be branded on the right hand or on the forehead,
17 and no one can buy or sell unless he has been branded with the name of the beast or with the number of its name.
18 Let us see who is wise! If you are clever, you can interpret the number of the Beast; it is 666 and it is the name of a certain person.
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Revelation 13 describes John's view of two beasts that emerge from the earth and the sea and symbolize political and religious powers that will pursue the followers of Christ. To find verses related to this chapter, we can seek references on political and religious powers that pursue the faithful and the beast as a symbol of evil.
Daniel 7:7: "After that, I kept looking, and here is the fourth animal, terrible and amazing, and very strong, which had large iron teeth; he devoured and did in pieces, and stepped on his feet ; it was different from all the animals that appeared before him, and had ten horns. " This verse talks about Daniel's vision about a terrible and strong fourth animal with ten horns, which devoured and destroyed. This animal is interpreted as a powerful and oppressive kingdom that will rise in the future.
Daniel 7:25: "He shall utter words against the Most High, and consume the Holy Saints; he will take care of changing the times and the law; the saints will be handed over to him for a while, and times, and half a time." In this verse, Daniel describes the behavior of the oppressive kingdom, who will utter words against God and persecute the faithful, taking care of changing law and time. This verse has similarities to the beasts of Revelation 13 who pursue the followers of Christ.
Matthew 24:24: "For false Christs and false prophets will be raised, and will make great signs and wonders; in such a way that if possible, they would even deceive the chosen ones." In this verse, Jesus warns his disciples about false Christs and false prophets who will deceive even the chosen ones. This warning can be applied to the Beast of Revelation 13, which also deceives the Earth's inhabitants with their signs and wonders.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4: "No one in any way deceives you, because it will not be like that before the apostasy and manifest the man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposes and rises against everything that It is called God, or worships; so that it will be based, like God, in the temple of God, wanting to seem God. " These verses talk about the man of sin who will manifest himself as an opposite figure to God, sitting in the temple of God and wanting to look God. This figure resembles the beast of Revelation 13, which is worshiped as a God and has a false prophet who deceives people.
1 Peter 5:8: "Sober thirst, watch, because the devil, your adversary, walks in melting, bustling like a lion, seeking to those who can swallow." In this verse Peter warns Christians about the devil, who seeks to devour people as a lion. This warning can be applied to the Beast of Revelation 13, which is described as a devouring and persecuting beast of the followers of Christ.
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