Beast: please explain
 

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8.0 Big Business=Beast One: Church=Beast Two

8.1 Dragon -> Money=Power -> Rulers = Beast #1

8.2 Religion=Power Over People = Beast #2

Dragon took the sons of Eve, In their crippled minds a monster did conceive Seven heads, ten horns each a king has his day Three of gold, silver, bronze, the other iron mixed with clay Another horn rose different, but like unto the rest The power of the first three kings it did divest Their gold silver bronze it did digest Then went off to rape the earth and all who suckle at her breast The dragon his authority bestowed upon the beast Men gathered round, upon that power to feast With profanities and blasphemies ill concealed Made war on them whom Jah with grace and truth had sealed Did trespass make on Zion’s holy mount Abomination there, a desecrating fount Pollute the place where men did once atone Of all that would expel them from Jah and his holy throne Another sacrilege emerged from tainted earth A sycophantic acolyte, assistant to the first In guise of Lamb did praise his commerce foul Did sanctify perversity all dressed in robe and cowl With dragon’s words, he wrought unholy fire An image of the beast men to inspire The dragon gave that image monstrous speech And all that would not worship it their power he did impeach The beast gathered to him the minds he had remade The rich the poor, the free man and the slave Sealed them head and hand, three sixes there he laid And them that would not bear that mark could neither work nor trade Going on half of seven years With vile words instilled his bitter fear And them that bore Jah’s seal upon their heads He rearranged their times and laws and left them all for dead