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Revelation 13:11
The beast that comes up out of the earth!
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon .
Revelation 13:11:
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And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon
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Remember, we had learned in
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at its last paragraph) spiritually symbolizes the Church, and as an aside, it likely symbolizes that in other places in which it occurs in the Book of Revelation as well, but that the earth could spiritually symbolize the Church had not yet been clearly revealed to me by the Holy Spirit until in our study of Revelation Chapter 13 so that many of our previous studies in the Book of Revelation may need to be somewhat modified, depending on the context, wherever the term the earth takes place to make things more precise and clear.
But now, because we know that the term the earth symbolizes the Christian Church worldwide in Revelation Chapter 13, we know that when our verse says, And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, we know that God is revealing that this beast comes up from the Christian Church. And since the Church consists of the people therein, we know that this beast must have come up from the people in the Church, which is consistent with what we have been teaching, namely that the beast consists of Satan and his demons as they use and work through the counterfeit Christians and prophets that filled the Church during the Great Tribulation and still fill the Church even today. Therefore, this beast, like the first beast, consists of all of these: Satan, his fallen angels or demons, and all the counterfeit Christians in all the Christian churches worldwide.
These counterfeit Christians of the beast did and will not depart out of the Christian churches
that it came from the unsaved, the world, or hell, also called the bottomless pit in which Satan had been bound at the cross but then released on May 21, 1988 to bring Judgment against the Christian Church (see
Revelation 20:1-8
Now, we first read, And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth. Whereas the first beast came out of the sea, this beast comes up out of the earth. The earth, as we had seen in our study of the term the earth in
verse 8
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as the Elect did in obedience to Christ (see
Why leave all churches?
Woe to all you who sing praises in the Christian churches today, for you shall soon be weeping and howling on the Last Day of Judgment Day that we are now in! Better to weep now so that when you weep then, you will be better prepared for it.
that this beast is like a lamb, it means this beast is like or as Christ Himself. Obviously, this beast is not the true Christ, but it is a counterfeit Christ who ascends out of the earth (out of the Christian Church, namely out of or through the counterfeit Christians who make up the Church).
Notice that God is said to have horns coming out of his hand, and there; that is, in His hand where the horns come out was the hiding of His power. Clearly, then, horns must do with power, or we could say, strength as both words are synonyms.
We can also reveal many verses, of which I will mention just a couple, that when power or strength is substituted for the word horns, these verses make perfect sense. For instance, in Psalm 75, we read,
Ps 75:10
All the horns [strength] of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns [strength] of the righteous shall be exalted
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And, again, we read in Zechariah 1,
Zec 1:19
And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns [power] which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem
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Well, we could go on with more examples of how horns symbolize power or strength, but let's now ask, why is this beast said to have two horns? Well,
in that this beast has two horns means that these horns are Church-horns; that is, they have to do with the Church because the number 2 can symbolize the corporate Church (all the Christian churches worldwide - see Bible
Number 2
power or strength over the whole Christian Church (this beast continuously had 2 horns) during the Great Tribulation as if it were Christ Himself (this beast was like a lamb).
But now, our verse 11 says one last thing: and he spoke as a dragon. For reasons already mentioned, it is better translated, and it [the beast] spoke as a dragon. And, once again, because the verb spoke is in the Imperfect Tense and the Indicative Mood of the Geek, we can show this by translating this sentence, and it [ongoingly] spoke as a dragon. Furthermore, we had already learned in
Revelation 12:9
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And the great dragon was cast out [of heaven], that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him
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Therefore, our verse is saying that this beast (counterfeit Christ) that rose up from the earth (from the Church and its counterfeit Christians) continuously had power over the Church during the Great Tribulation, and it ongoingly spoke as a dragon; that is, this beast ongoingly spoke as the devil or Satan himself. And this makes perfect sense because Satan and his demons that are one part of this beast ongoingly spoke through its counterfeit Christians and prophets, which are the other part of the beast, so that when these counterfeit
churches worldwide as the Elect (Saints) have long since done in obedience to Christ, they will continue worshipping the beast in their churches because all their churches have long since been given over to the devil both to own and rule over them as God's very own Judgment against them all for being in rebellion to many teachings in the Holy Scriptures of God, which they have now been blinded to as God feeds them a strong delusion (2Thessalonians 2:11). Indeed, we have been in the time of the Antichrist ever since the Church Age ended and the Great Tribulation began on May 21, 1988, which is the time when Satan has been pulling off his greatest deception since he had deceived Eve in the garden, namely he has the whole Christian Church, except the Elect (the Saints) who are no longer in the churches, worshipping him as if he were Christ, and none of them even know it. This, as well as the fact that eternal life and salvation ended in all the Christian churches at the beginning of the Great Tribulation and end of the Church Age on May 21, 1988 is why we read,
Mt 24:21
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be
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CONCLUSION
We learned that this beast coming up out of the earth during the Great Tribulation was Satan and his demons of one part of the beast as they rose up and worked through the counterfeit
Christians and Prophets of the other part of the beast and of the Christian Church as the counterfeit Christ, THE ANTICHRIST, also called the Man of Sin, Son of Perdition, and Abomination of Desolation, having continuous power over the Church and ongoingly speaking as Satan or the devil because it actually was Satan or the devil of one part of the beast that used the counterfeit Prophets and counterfeit Christians of the other part of the beast and of the Christian Church to speak for it. They were not Satan, but they spoke for Satan according to his will. Therefore, they, being one part of the beast ongoingly spoke as a dragon (as Satan himself) to speak the Holy Scriptures but to cleverly twist, abuse, and misuse them to lead the Church into false teachings and counterfeit gospels to their own spiritual destruction as God's Judgment against them, for Judgment [had to] begin at the House of God (1Peter 4:17).
Now,
until the next time, may
Yahweh bless thee, and keep thee: Yahweh make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: Yahweh lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace
(Numbers 6:24-26).