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9If you have ears,
then listen!
10 Jr 15.2; 43.11. If you are doomed
to be captured,
you will be captured.
If you are doomed
to be killed by a sword,
you will be killed
by a sword.
This means God's people must learn to endure and be faithful!
11I now saw another beast. This one came out of the ground. It had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
12It worked for the beast whose fatal wound had been healed. And it used all its authority to force the earth and its people to worship that beast.
13It worked mighty miracles, and while people watched, it even made fire come down from the sky.
14This second beast fooled people on earth by working miracles for the first one. Then it talked them into making an idol in the form of the beast that did not die after being wounded by a sword.
15It was allowed to put breath into the idol, so it could speak. Everyone who refused to worship the idol of the beast was put to death.
163 Macc 2.29. All people were forced to put a mark on their right hand or forehead. Whether they were powerful or weak, rich or poor, free people or slaves,
17they all had to have this mark, or else they could not buy or sell anything. This mark stood for the name of the beast and for the number of its name.
18You need wisdom to understand the number of the beast! But if you are smart enough, you can figure this out. Its number is 666, and it stands for a person.
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