This means that God's people must be patient and strong. They must continue to trust God.^[a]

The wild animal from the land

¹¹ Then I saw a second wild animal. This one was coming up out of the ground.^[b] It had two horns like a lamb's horns. But it spoke like a dragon. ¹² It worked for the first wild animal and it used the authority of the first wild animal. It made all the people on earth worship the first wild animal. That first animal was the one that someone had hurt very much. It seemed that it would soon die but it had become well again.