VI: The Prophets' Visions

Beast from the Earth (False Prophet) Counterfeit court

the native religious power enforcing worship

Root
Dan 8:3, 20 · nabi (H5030)
Old Testament chain
  1. Gen 3:1-5
  2. Deut 18:20-22
  3. 1 Kgs 22:22-23
  4. Jer 23:16
  5. Ezek 13:2-10
  6. Dan 3:1-7
  7. Rev 13:11-17
New Testament
Rev 13:11-17; Rev 13:11; Rev 13:12

The serpent speaks first in Eden, religious words with deadly content (Gen 3:1-5). Torah marks the prophet who speaks presumptuously in Yahuah's name (Deut 18:20-22), and Jeremiah warns, "they speak a vision of their own heart" (Jer 23:16). Daniel's ram carries two horns as a kingdom (Dan 8:3, 20), and Nebuchadnezzar's herald enforces worship of the image (Dan 3:1-7). Revelation's second beast rises from the land, a native-looking power: the first beast looks foreign, the second looks native. Two horns like a lamb are resemblance without identity; its dragon speech is religious authority with demonic content, restoring the first beast through worship. The book identifies it as the United States.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 195, 210–212, 215, 300–302