Image of the beast

[luigi]

An image of something or someone can be in material form, or it can be what someone perceives in their mind. Propaganda produces images in peoples minds.
Cambridge English Dictionary: a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or something is:

As an example, here is an image of a lesser god/love. In the 19th century, French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed what today is the statue of liberty in New York harbor. At the statues base is the sonnet by poet Emma Lazarus, which has inscribed the words:
"...Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door"
For generations throughout the world people flocked to these U.S. shores on the IMAGE these words SPOKE to them in their minds.

So now let's go back to the IMAGE of a soon to be greater god/love, that of the seven headed, ten horned beast. After what will be the worst of times throughout the world, when the governments of this world are in free fall, as depicted by the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and when the faithful in Christ will be betrayed by family members unto the death, as depicted in the Olivet discourses, prior to when the abomination of desolation makes his appearance and stands where it ought not; the devil and his angels will then be cast out from heaven unto the earth, where he will then have one last go at making things work on planet earth. The devil who is the dragon will then vest the beast with his power, thus causing the beast's ascension from the sea (which is also the bottomless pit); from which the world will then be in adoration of the dragon for having given the beast his power, and in adoration of the beasts new system, which will have the whole world exclaiming: Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? As all other governments throughout the world prior to the beasts' ascension will have been in collapse mode, as is also depicted by the fatally wounded head of the beast who is resuscitated upon the beasts' ascension from the power in the sea; the "Who is like unto the beast?" means what other governments system is as good as that of the beast's system? And, "who is able to make war with him?" means what other government system is able to contend and provide a better quality of life than that of the beast's system? As this new world order will be loved throughout the world (Revelation 13:4); the beast's mouth will then order the construction of an image to the beast, with words to match at its base, depicting a false narrative (IMAGE) of what many billions of people will voluntarily choose to believe, in place of the truth, where the beast's new world order will in affect, as the Lord informs us, produce woe to the inhabitants of both earth and sea, when the dragon is come down unto the earth (Revelation 12:12).

Revelation 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Edited July 13, 2020 by luigi
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