Revelation Chapter 13
Verse 11 (NASB) 
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11. And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and
he
had
two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
John is saying he has seen something like this before (verse
1) and it isn't any better the second time.
coming up out of the earth; and
This is the last of the satanic trilogy: Satan (devil himself), the sea
beast (antichrist), and the earth beast (anti-Holy Spirit).
John the Baptist in discussing Christ makes an interesting
statement
about what "comes from the earth" (John
3:25-36).
- he had two horns like a lamb, and
What an odd description because lambs don't have horns. Thus, this must
be a representation of something like power and authority. Perhaps one
horn is political and the other is religious.
Note the "other Lamb" in Revelation
5:6
has seven horns (complete authority over seven realms not fully known
to
mankind?).
Lambs were considered unblemished and spotless as fit for
sacrifice
(1
Peter
1:13-21). However, this one as a lamb ....
Now the dragon, too, is fictitious. So what we have here is a wolf in
sheep's
clothing. Matthew
7:15-20 is how Jesus described him.
Paul says "God will send" this beast to deceive "even the elect" (2
Thessalonians
2:1-11-12). These "elect" must refer to the sealed
144,000
Jewish men (next chapter) because the rest of
the
elect are gone in the "uptaking" by this time. The remaining people
on this earth will buy in to the anti-Holy Ghost completely!
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