The Two Beasts

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The first Beast of Rev. 13 is the great Gentile power, to which the empire is given in the accustomed terms of scripture; but with its healed head, in its last blasphemous state, admired and owned by all not kept of God in sovereign grace, hating and blaspheming those who had their tabernacle in heaven. His rise is out of the general mass, “the sea.” What then is “the earth” out of which the second Beast rises? All heavenly association is blasphemed; and this Beast has its origin within the system where Satan rules; which when assuming a religious character, is Jewish, and as rejecting Christ, false. He is the proper present energy of Satan to lead the world to recognize the throne set up in the first Beast. While himself a Beast with horns, it is by power, signs, and delusions that he acts, as we see here as in 2 Thess. 2 J. N. D.