Revelation Chapter 13

The Beast from the Sea

¹ The dragon stood on the sand on the seashore. I watched as a beast came up out of the sea. It had ten horns, seven heads, ten diadems, and blasphemous names on its heads. ² It looked like a leopard with bear’s feet and a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave it power, dominion, and great authority. ³ One of its heads looked like it had been mortally wounded and its mortal wound had healed. The whole earth marveled at the beast ⁴ and worshiped the dragon that gave it authority. They also worshiped the beast, “Who’s like it? Who can wage war with it?”          

Rev 13:1-4

            ⁵ The beast was allowed to speak great blasphemous things and have authority to do it for 42 months. ⁶ It blasphemed God, his tabernacle, and those who live in heaven. ⁷ It was allowed to fight the saints and defeat them, and to control every tribe, people group, language, and nation. ⁸ People worshiped it whose names weren’t in the Lamb’s Book of Life, the Lamb that was slain from the founding of the world.

                   ⁹ Whoever has an ear, listen:

                  ¹⁰ snyone that’s destined for captivity

                                    will go into captivity;

                        anyone that murders with a sword

                                    will be killed with a sword.

That’s why the saints stay confident.                                            Rev 13:5-10

The Beast from the Land

¹¹ I watched another beast come up out of the land. It had two horns like a lamb and talked like a dragon. ¹² It exercised all the authority the first beast had, and made people worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had healed. ¹³ It performed great signs, even making fire come down from the sky. ¹⁴ It deceived people with the signs it was allowed to do in front of the first beast. It told them to make an image to the beast that had the sword wound and came back to life. ¹⁵ It was allowed to make the image of the first beast breathe so it could even speak, and it was allowed to execute people that refused to worship the image. ¹⁶ It made everybody—great or small, rich or poor, servant or free—receive a stamp on the forehead or right hand. ¹⁷ They couldn’t buy or sell without the stamp of the beast or the number of its name. ¹⁸ ere is insight; let the discerJHere

Here’s a hint for a discerning person to calculate its number. It’s the number in use among people: 666.