172    The Bible and the Future of the World 
captivity, they must accept it. If any Christian tries to avoid suffering by use 
of violence during this time, he will be defeated. For it is God's will that the 
Church suffer, even as Christ himself suffered. When it was time for Jesus to 
be crucified, He willingly carried His Cross and let Himself be nailed to it. 
The False Prophet (Rev 13:1 15) 
     Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns 
like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the 
first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship 
the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.  (Rev 13:1 2). 
    This other beast rises out of the earth, not the sea, meaning that this is an 
individual person, not a kingdom. (Recall that God made mankind out of 
dust from the earth, Genesis 2:7.) The two horns of a lamb symbolize the 
two powers which religious leaders have, spiritual and temporal. So this 
individual will be a religious leader, who will also have worldly authority, 
but one who will speak like a dragon. The term dragon is used in Revelation 
to refer to the devil, and also to the kingdom of Antichrist. Therefore, this 
religious leader will be a false prophet, who will use the words and ideas of 
religion in order to do evil. 
    The false prophet is the Antichrist's assistant for part of his reign of nearly 
seven years. The false prophet is a woman; she is to the Virgin Mary as the 
Antichrist is to Christ. She is an Antimary. She assists the Antichrist  and 
often speaks on his behalf. 
    This false prophet will exercise the temporal authority of the first beast, 
who is Antichrist. And  she will work false signs and wonders, to try to 
convince the people to worship Antichrist (Rev 13:13).  She will have both 
worldly power and a deceiving kind of spiritual power. She will use the idea 
that Antichrist was healed of a mortal wound to try to convince people to 
worship Antichrist (Rev 13:14). They will try to kill anyone who remains 
faithful to the one true God and who refuses to worship the Antichrist. 
Whoever does worship Antichrist and follow the  false prophet will be 
condemned by God and will be severely punished. 
    The false prophet will have an image of Antichrist made and try to 
convince people to worship the image.  She  will even be able to make the 
image of Antichrist appear as if alive, in  order to deceive people into 
worshipping Antichrist and his image (Rev 13:13 15). 
    Recall the warning which Jesus Christ himself gave:  For false Christs 
and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead 
astray, if possible,  even the elect. Lo, I have told you beforehand.  (Mt 
24:24 25). Here Jesus is predicting the arrival of the Antichrist and the false 






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