the dragon gave his authority to the beast and the people looked at the dragon, they looked at the beast they saw the great dragon had given his authority to the beast, his throne and his power and the people thus submitted to the beast, they worshipped the beast, for they saw and understood, they saw the power of the beast and the authority of the beast, great and terrible they then worshipped the beast, and said, " who is like the beast, and who can stand up to the beast?" who can fight the beast and who can defeat the beast? they know the answer the people of the earth knew that no one could stand up to the beast that no one could defeat the beast not them not the strongest among them not jesus and not god no one could defeat the beast and so they worshipped the great beast with fear in the same way they had worshipped god with fear the beast had been given the power to wage war against the people of god and the power to conquer them for they had the power of god yet the great dragon was mightier than god the beast was given the power to exert authority over every people every tribe every nation god sent angels to patrol the skies as he was powerless to stop the beast he sent his angels and the angels said in gods name: fear god and give him glory. because god will judge you. worship him he who claims to have made the land and the sea the other angel of god said: all who worship the beast will drink the wine of the fury of god they will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the lamb god had not the power to stop the great beast nor the great dragon and so god in desperation tried to threaten and scare into his submission the people of the earth as he had done before but the god fearing humans had found a greater thing to fear a being mightier than god and since the worship of the faithful is not from love but from fear they worshipped the beast and they worshipped the great dragon who had defeated god
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