Courtesy Victor Books, The Bible Reader’s Companion by Lawrence O. Richards (1991)
The Beast from the Earth
11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives [f]those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has [g]the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
[Read whole of Revelation 13, NKJV at BibleGateway.com]
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ALSO, recall this posted 6th December 2021:
Conspiracy Theories Proven #1: Archbishop confirms we ARE living though Revelation 13
SEEK the Lord while He may be found and enquire as to how Chapter 13 is unfolding.
FOOTNOTE:
Earlier today, Chris Moyler writes about a certain character:
“Yuval Noah Harari is co-Founder of Sapienship, a multidisciplinary organization advocating for global responsibility whose mission is to clarify the public conversation, support the quest for solutions and focus attention on technological disruption, ecological collapse and the nuclear threat.
Harari serves as a lead advisor for Klaus Schwab, author of ‘COVID-19 / The Great Reset’ and founder of The World Economic Forum. He has been praised by notable figures such as Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.”
Richard's Watch 
While I was pondering one day about the Image, that was given the power to speak blasphemies, I thought of a hologram. I wondered whether Image was not quite the right translation, when interpreted as statue, but actually an image as we now know it. A hologram/Virtual Reality image, available everywhere at once, as a pretend omnipresent god. As part of a AI security/surveillance system, wired to an all-seeing ‘god’ image.
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Yes and that accords with Greek ‘eikon’ also used for religious paintings, or icons, which are pictorial. Hence, hologram and virtual reality fit the description too!
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