| Then I saw another beast, which came up out
of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb's horns, and
it spoke like a dragon. It used the vast authority of the
first beast in its presence. It forced the earth and all
who live on it to worship the first beast, whose wound
had healed. This second beast performed great miracles;
it made fire come down out of heaven to earth in sight of
everyone. And it deceived all the people living on earth
by means of the miracles which it was allowed to perform
in the presence of the first beast. The beast told them
to build an image in honour of the beast that had been
wounded by the sword and yet lived. Then the fifth angel
poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast. Darkness
fell over the beast's kingdom, and people bit their
tongues because of their pain. |