6. It began to curse God, his name, the place where he lives, and all those who live in heaven.
7. It was allowed to fight against God's people and to defeat them, and it was given authority over every tribe, nation, language, and race.
8. All people living on earth will worship it, except those whose names were written before the creation of the world in the book of the living which belongs to the Lamb that was killed.
9. “Listen, then, if you have ears!
10. Whoever is meant to be captured will surely be captured; whoever is meant to be killed by the sword will surely be killed by the sword. This calls for endurance and faith on the part of God's people.”
11. Then I saw another beast, which came up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb's horns, and it spoke like a dragon.