Beast of Chapter 13?The end of Chapter 12 tells us that the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring. Chapter 13 tells us how he does this war making. Satan launches his attack on us using beasts which he gives power. The beasts stand for those who have embodied powers of evil.
The first beast symbolizes political power taken to such an extreme that it pushes God out. The second beast symbolize those forces that justify these evil powers and spin it so that it seems acceptable.
These beasts are firstly a reference to the Roman Empire. But as it is with other themes in the book of Revelation, these beasts manifest throughout all of history and will become acute at the end of time.
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