Second Beast / False Prophet

Daniel 7:23 - Thus he said: The fourth beast shall be A fourth kingdom on earth...

The beast denotes a kingdom.

Daniel 2:1 - Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him.

Daniel 2:31 - You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome.

Daniel 2:32-33 - This image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

Daniel 2:34 - You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Daniel 2:35 - Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Daniel 2:38 - ...You (Babylon) are this head of gold.

Daniel 8:20 - The ram which you saw, having the two horns--they are the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 8:21 - And the male goat is the kingdom of Greece. The large horn that is between its eyes is the first king.

Luke 2:1 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus (Roman Emperor), that all the world should be taxed.

• Fourth Kingdom (Roman Empire) exists in some form until the Second Coming of Jesus - Dan 2:34

Daniel 2:34 - You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

• Fourth Kingdom (Roman Empire) initially exists as a Dragon (Pagan Roman Empire)

10 horns in Fourth Beast (Daniel 7:7), 10 horns in Dragon in Revelation 12:3

• Dragon (Pagan Roman Empire) gives its power to the First Beast (Second form of Roman Empire)

Revelation 13:2 - Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power (forces), his throne (Rome), and great authority.

• Second Beast (Third form of Roman Empire) exercises the power of the First Beast

Revelation 13:11 - Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 13:12 - And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

• First Beast & Second Beast are contemporaries

Revelation 19:20 - Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet (Rev 16:13) who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 13:11 - Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

The Two-horned beast, or False prophet, is the Pope or Roman pontiff, with his clergy, having indeed two horns like the Lamb, of whose power of binding and loosing on the earth he boasts himself the Vicar of Christ, but uttering idolatries and butcheries of the saints like a dragon.

He conducts himself as Head of the Church and King of Vatican (monarch). He, indeed by signs and miracles, which it was given to him and his clergy to do, or pretend to do, by the thunder of excommunication, to submit their necks unanimously to him, so as to introduce an image of the ancient, and now demolished pagan empire.

Second Beast is called as False Prophet

Revelation 19:20 - And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 13:13 - He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.

Revelation 13:14 - And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

Revelation 20:10 - And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Matthew 7:15 - Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

For the Pope alone, though he may be called the false prophet, does not, constitute the beast, unless with the addition of his clergy, since the beast denotes an assembly of men, a kingdom, and not a single person.

Daniel 7:8 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

The ten horns of the 4th beast of Daniel 7 foretold that the Roman Empire would split into 10 civil kingdoms, and that a Little Horn, the Popes of Rome, would rise up among them, and pluck out three of the kingdoms that did not bow down to his authority. They subdued and destroyed three of the ten kingdoms, the Heruli, the Ostrogoths and the Vandals.

Daniel 7:25 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Daniel foretold that the Little Horn, the Popes of Rome would speak against God, and reign for 1,260 years.

Revelation 13:11 - And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

John saw him ascending from the earth; that is, not like the Ten-horned beast, risen from the sea, or the dominions of the world.

The 2-horned beast rises from a more noble kind of origin, but sprung from the lowest condition of human affairs; or rather, not born as the secular one, during a tumultuous conflict of armies, but growing up quietly, and without noise, like herbs and plants springing from the earth.

Revelation 13:11 - ...and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

And it had two horns like a lamb, that is, similar to that of the Lamb, he says that he acts therein as the vicar of Christ, but he speaks as a dragon; even as the red dragon that was expelled from the Roman empire;

In truth, like the dragon (Pagan Rome), the Two-horned beast (Papacy) patronizes the worship of idols, by his authority, causes the true and pure worshippers of the Lamb that was slain to be exterminated by persecution and butcheries.

Revelation 13:12 - And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

The two-horned beast executes that delegated power of the dragon committed to the first beast, and consisting in idolatrous worship;

2 Thessalonians 2:6 - And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.

2 Thessalonians 2:7 - For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.

The Roman Emperor was the restrainer, because as long as he was in authority, the Popes could not take power. Once the emperors were moved out of the way, the little horn antichrist Papacy started to grow in Rome.

Shortly after the last Roman Emperor was removed in 476 A.D., the Son of Perdition, the Popes of Rome, rose to power in 538 A.D.

• Fall of the Western Roman Empire
• Odoacer

1 Corinthians 10:19 - What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

1 Corinthians 10:20 - Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

Revelation 9:20 - But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

Revelation 13:4 - So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast;

Judges 17:1 - Now there was a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Judges 17:2 - And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, and on which you put a curse, even saying it in my ears--here is the silver with me; I took it." And his mother said, "May you be blessed by the Lord, my son!

Judges 17:3 - So when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son, to make a carved image and a molded image; now therefore, I will return it to you.

Judges 17:4 - Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah.

Judges 17:5 - The man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod and household idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 17:13 - Then Micah said, Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since I have a Levite as priest!

Exodus 32:4 - And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt

Golden Calf was called Your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt (Jehovah).

The Israelites worshiped the Golden Calf by calling it as the god which brought them out of the land of Egypt. In other words, they called the Golden Calf as Jehovah.

1 Kings 12:28 - Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt

Molten Calves were called Your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt (Jehovah).

When Jeroboam made the two golden calves, he called the calves as the gods which brought them out of the land of Egypt. In other words, he called the Molten Calves as the God of Israel (Jehovah).

The Israelites were worshipping the molten calves in the name of Jehovah. However, they were worshipping demons as idols.

The same strategy is used by the Roman Catholic Church to make people worship demons by giving the names of Jesus, Mary & saints to idols. While the deceived Catholics worship the idols, they indeed worship demons.

Revelation 13:12 - And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

Thus the 2-horned beast (Papacy), exercises the power of the first beast and causes the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first beast.

The beast received its deadly wound (Rev 13:3) when Pagan Rome was sacked by the Goths & Barbarians.

Sack of Rome by Alaric in 410 A.D
Sack of Rome by Genseric in 455 A.D
Fall of Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D
Odoacer

Thus the deadly wound (Rev 13:3) was healed when Emperor Justinian announced the primacy of the Bishop of Rome. In other words, the Bishop of Rome became Pope.

Papal primacy
Justinian decree

The dragon impressed the form of his idol worship on Christianity, while the dragon substituted his own angels or demons to be worshipped under the shelter of the Christian religion, in the names of saints and good angels.

He who worships idols, under whatever name he may invoke them, worships demons.

Revelation 13:13 - He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.

Revelation 13:14 - And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;

As to the wonders performed by the 2-horned beast (Papacy), it is a notorious circumstance, that a universal idolatry has prevailed in the kingdom of the beast for about 17 centuries, consisting in the worship of dead saints, of relics, and angels, the worship of images, the blasphemy of a god in bread, by a great assemblage of wonders, by supposed cures, and miraculous visions (Fatima, Lourdes, Velankanni, etc), by the coercion of demons in appearance.

All these things, indeed, the two-horned beast, or Papacy, with his pseudo-prophetic attendant (Pope), is said to have done;

Marian Apparition
Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Fatima
Our Lady of the Pillar
Our Lady of the Rosary
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Great Apostasy

They contrived and approved them by their authority in order to seduce the Christian world. For this is the very thing which the apostle Paul predicted to the Thessalonians.

Revelation 13:17 - and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

What is meant by the interdiction of buying and selling?

I have just now shown, namely, to denote the papal excommunication, under which those who fall are excluded from the custom and trade of citizens.

The canon of the Lateran Council, issued against the Waldenses and Albigenses, prohibits expressly under an anathema, That any one should presume to receive, or maintain them in their houses, or to carry on any business with them.

And the Synod of Tours, in France, prohibits under a similar denunciation, "Where the followers of that heresy, (as they call it) were known, that any one should presume to grant them a place of refuge in their territory, or to afford them protection; but prescribes that no communication should be held with them in buying and selling".

Excommunication
List of Excommunicable offences (All who support, receive or trade with Cathars)

Revelation 18:4 - And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.