Revelation 13:4

The First Beast From The Sea

³ And I saw one of his heads as if it had been given a death-wound; and his death-wound was made well: and all the earth was wondering at the beast. ⁴ And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshipping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to war with him? ⁵ And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.

Able to Go to War

Revelation 13:2

And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.

Revelation 18:18

And crying out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What town is like the great town?

Exodus 15:11

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?

Deuteronomy 9:2

A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.

1 Samuel 17:24

And all the men of Israel, when they saw him, went in flight, overcome with fear.

Psalm 106:37-38

They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,

Daniel 11:36-37

And the king will do his pleasure; he will put himself on high, lifting himself over every god, and saying things to be wondered at against the God of gods; and all will be well for him till the wrath is complete; for what has been purposed will be done.

1 Corinthians 10:20-22

What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.

2 Corinthians 4:4

Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

Revelation 12:3

And there was seen another sign in heaven; a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

Revelation 13:12-13

And he makes use of all the authority of the first beast before his eyes. And he makes the earth and those who are in it give worship to the first beast, whose death-wound was made well.

Revelation 13:15

And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.

Revelation 17:14

These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.