Revelation 3:10Radiate New TestamentYou’ve kept my command to remain strong in the faith no matter what happens, so I’m going to keep you from the time of suffering that the rest of the world is going to experience. That suffering will test those who live on the earth. See the chapter |
The beast that you saw used to exist, but now it doesn’t, and yet it will come up out of the Abyss and then be destroyed. Anyone living on the earth whose name has not been written in the book of life from the time the world was created will be amazed when they see the beast, because it will come again, even though it used to exist but now it doesn’t.
The first beast had given the second beast the power to perform these signs, and by these signs, the second beast tricked those who live on the earth. The second beast ordered people to set up a statue to honor the first beast. The first beast was the one who’d been wounded by a sword but had survived.