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The Gods of the Bible
Every named divine being in Scripture, what the text calls it, and what the ancient world thought it was.
The beast from the earth / the false prophet
The second beast of Revelation, which looks like a lamb and talks like a dragon.
Revelation 13:11-18, in every translation this tool compares.
The second beast. It has two horns like a lamb and speaks like a dragon, which is the whole point of it: the thing that looks harmless and sounds like the enemy. Later in the book it is simply called the false prophet.
Two horns like a lamb, and speaks like a dragon. Later called the false prophet, and that is the third figure in 16:13. Beale notes that Revelation introduces its four evil actors in a fixed order, the dragon (ch. 12), the sea beast (13:1-10), the land beast or false prophet (13:11-18), and Babylon (14:8), and narrates their defeat in reverse: Babylon falls first (chs. 17-18), then the beast and false prophet together (19:20), then the dragon (20:10). The reversal is a literary device marking one coordinated end and makes no claim about chronological sequence.
- Revelation 13:11-18
- Revelation 16:13
- Revelation 19:20
- Revelation 20:10
- Revelation 14:8
- G. K. Beale, *The Book of Revelation*
- B. F. Batto, DDD s.v. "Behemoth," 165
