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The wild animal from the land

11 Then I saw a second wild animal. This one was coming up out of the ground.[a] It had two horns like a lamb's horns. But it spoke like a dragon. 12 It worked for the first wild animal and it used the authority of the first wild animal. It made all the people on earth worship the first wild animal. That first animal was the one that someone had hurt very much. It seemed that it would soon die but it had become well again.

13 The second wild animal did great miracles. It even caused fire to come down from heaven to the earth, while people watched.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:11 The wild animal from the ground seems to be a false prophet or a false Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit causes people to worship Jesus. This second wild animal causes people to worship the first wild animal.