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Apocalipse 13 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
18 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1And the Dragon stood on the shore of the sea. I saw a Beast rising from the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads—on each horn a crown, and each head inscribed with a blasphemous name.
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1Then I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. It had seven heads and ten horns, with ten crowns on its horns. And written on each head were names that blasphemed God.
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2The Beast I saw looked like a leopard with bear paws and a lion's mouth. The Dragon turned over its power to it, its throne and great authority.
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2This beast looked like a leopard, but it had the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion! And the dragon gave the beast his own power and throne and great authority.
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3One of the Beast's heads looked as if it had been struck a deathblow, and then healed. The whole earth was agog, gaping at the Beast.
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3I saw that one of the heads of the beast seemed wounded beyond recovery — but the fatal wound was healed! The whole world marveled at this miracle and gave allegiance to the beast.
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4They worshiped the Dragon who gave the Beast authority, and they worshiped the Beast, exclaiming, "There's never been anything like the Beast! No one would dare go to war with the Beast!"
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4They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they also worshiped the beast. “Who is as great as the beast?” they exclaimed. “Who is able to fight against him?”
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5The Beast had a loud mouth, boastful and blasphemous. It could do anything it wanted for forty-two months.
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5Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months.
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6It yelled blasphemies against God, blasphemed his Name, blasphemed his Church, especially those already dwelling with God in Heaven.
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6And he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and his dwelling — that is, those who dwell in heaven.
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7It was permitted to make war on God's holy people and conquer them. It held absolute sway over all tribes and peoples, tongues and races.
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7And the beast was allowed to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation.
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8Everyone on earth whose name was not written from the world's foundation in the slaughtered Lamb's Book of Life will worship the Beast.
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8And all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. They are the ones whose names were not written in the Book of Life that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered before the world was made.
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9Are you listening to this?
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9Anyone with ears to hearshould listen and understand.
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10They've made their bed; now they must lie in it. Anyone marked for prison goes straight to prison; anyone pulling a sword goes down by the sword. Meanwhile, God's holy people passionately and faithfully stand their ground.
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10Anyone who is destined for prisonwill be taken to prison.Anyone destined to die by the swordwill die by the sword. This means that God’s holy people must endure persecution patiently and remain faithful.
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11I saw another Beast rising out of the ground. It had two horns like a lamb but sounded like a dragon when it spoke.
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11Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, but he spoke with the voice of a dragon.
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12It was a puppet of the first Beast, made earth and everyone in it worship the first Beast, which had been healed of its deathblow.
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12He exercised all the authority of the first beast. And he required all the earth and its people to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed.
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13This second Beast worked magical signs, dazzling people by making fire come down from Heaven.
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13He did astounding miracles, even making fire flash down to earth from the sky while everyone was watching.
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14It used the magic it got from the Beast to dupe earth dwellers, getting them to make an image of the Beast that received the deathblow and lived.
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14And with all the miracles he was allowed to perform on behalf of the first beast, he deceived all the people who belong to this world. He ordered the people to make a great statue of the first beast, who was fatally wounded and then came back to life.
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15It was able to animate the image of the Beast so that it talked, and then arrange that anyone not worshiping the Beast would be killed.
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15He was then permitted to give life to this statue so that it could speak. Then the statue of the beast commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die.
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16It forced all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to have a mark on the right hand or forehead.
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16He required everyone — small and great, rich and poor, free and slave — to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead.
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17Without the mark of the name of the Beast or the number of its name, it was impossible to buy or sell anything.
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17And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.
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18Solve a riddle: Put your heads together and figure out the meaning of the number of the Beast. It's a human number: six hundred sixty-six.
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18Wisdom is needed here. Let the one with understanding solve the meaning of the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is 666.