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Updated: June 10, 2025
Those of this number who were truly saved, however, always loved and adored their Lord more than the human church to which they were attached, and consequently they should not be regarded as beast-worshipers. The second beast also exhibits the characteristics of a persecuting power, and in this respect it is similar to the ten-horned beast.
Hence we should naturally suppose that it would also describe in some manner the power symbolized by the two-horned beast Protestantism as well as duplicate the description of the ten-horned beast Catholicism. That the papacy is symbolized in chapter 17 by the corrupt whore sitting on the ten-horned beast, is too plain to need any particular demonstration.
The description of the papal power under the symbol of the ten-horned beast of Revelation 13 and the little horn of Daniel 7 presents a melancholy picture of world-events during the long period of twelve hundred and sixty years ending with the sixteenth century reformation.
This empire, which is called a beast, will receive Satan's power, and will have over it a wicked leader, whom Daniel saw as the little horn on the ten-horned beast. The dragon's plan to control the earth has seemingly been realized. He then institutes the great tribulation. But there is a second beast mentioned in Revelation xiii. He has two horns like a lamb but speaks as a dragon.
The first obtained his power and authority from the dragon which preceded him; while the second derived his power from the ten-horned beast "before him." The first caused people to worship the preceding power styled "the dragon"; while the second caused people to "worship the first beast."
Protestant commentators generally apply both the ten-horned beast and the two-horned beast to Rome, the first representing the political power, and the second the ecclesiastical power.
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