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muriel_volestrangler

(106,319 posts)
42. So that is the first "beast", not an antichrist
Tue Apr 14, 2026, 05:57 PM
7 hrs ago
And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.

10 “If anyone is to go into captivity,
into captivity they will go.
If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
with the sword they will be killed.”

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013&version=NIV

I mean, if you're going to insist on a precise definition from biblical wording, then you can't go changing "beast" to "antichrist".

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Is Trump the Antichrist? [View all] thomhartmann 13 hrs ago OP
He sure is a hell of a piece of shit. Dave Bowman 13 hrs ago #1
;-{) FIRED Goonch 13 hrs ago #2
AN Antichrist JCMach1 13 hrs ago #3
Yep... kerry-is-my-prez 11 hrs ago #18
I believe Christ Traildogbob 13 hrs ago #4
Yes. Not an expert, but many years of Catholic school & teaching. AnotherMother4Peace 13 hrs ago #5
Anti-sapient. Solly Mack 13 hrs ago #6
No, he ForgedCrank 13 hrs ago #7
Does it have to be followed by the whole population? kerry-is-my-prez 11 hrs ago #20
It's from ForgedCrank 11 hrs ago #23
Where does that come from? muriel_volestrangler 10 hrs ago #26
By that definition there are hundreds of thousands "antichrists" all over the world MorbidButterflyTat 10 hrs ago #32
I reckon that if someone takes the word seriously, they have to either work with what it says in the Bible muriel_volestrangler 9 hrs ago #36
Revelation 13:8 ForgedCrank 9 hrs ago #38
So that is the first "beast", not an antichrist muriel_volestrangler 7 hrs ago #42
I'm not ForgedCrank 2 hrs ago #43
No ABC123Easy 13 hrs ago #8
Intelligent and successful in his SuperDuperConMan life, he is. Justice matters. 11 hrs ago #19
If ABC123Easy 9 hrs ago #37
Kick usonian 12 hrs ago #9
Kick dalton99a 11 hrs ago #10
If he isn't, then no_hypocrisy 11 hrs ago #11
Giving him far too much credit orangecrush 11 hrs ago #12
He is an agent of satan kimbutgar 11 hrs ago #13
No, he's human and is going to die. Hopefully soon. surfered 11 hrs ago #14
Yes clevergrrrl 11 hrs ago #15
No TxGuitar 11 hrs ago #16
Why even ask? GaYellowDawg 11 hrs ago #17
If Anyone Is DET 11 hrs ago #21
He's an AntiChrist. haele 11 hrs ago #22
Christ is definitely AntiTrump Seinan Sensei 10 hrs ago #24
I have a sneaking suspicion that Donald wants.... OGBuzz 10 hrs ago #25
He is schizophrenic liberal N proud 10 hrs ago #27
He is certainly very devil may care Blue Owl 10 hrs ago #28
I dunno. Did the antiChrist have chronic explosive diarrhea? Sibelius Fan 10 hrs ago #29
No. MorbidButterflyTat 10 hrs ago #30
The way i look at this is, If you believe him to be the Anti Christ, you have to believe there is a God. bluestarone 10 hrs ago #31
People are asking. Ferrets are Cool 10 hrs ago #33
I don't think the antichrist would be stupid. Sneederbunk 10 hrs ago #34
665 and 1/2 harumph 10 hrs ago #35
The way I figure it B.See 8 hrs ago #39
He is a dunderhead. n/t Jacson6 8 hrs ago #40
The Antichrist is supposed to die and resurrect three days later, mimicking the Christ. Tbear 8 hrs ago #41
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