I believe the image of the beast is AI.
An artificial intelligence which will control everything and everyone... no more useless officials (to use a Georgia Guidestones phrase). And according to the algorithm of this AI (and who exactly are the programmers anyway?) the new world order will form as this AI sees fit.
Individuals will be connected to the internet of things with an implantable microchip. And if we don't want to be a part of the Borg... we will soon be about a head shorter.
Isn't it beautiful ?
A.I effectively taps Into big data..and where does that data come from? Us......and what Influences human thought patterns?
check this
"The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name."
Breath is life/etheric energy. Ie the spirit was Breathed into man.
It's also why Jesus will destroy the beast with the Breath of his mouth...
this is not a technological matter but a spiritual and occult one.
You look at all the different religions/mythologies in the past INC the abrahimic religions, they all have the sacrifice. What is it about blood? it's the energy...and it's the intent and act that goes with the energy and what it serves.
Yahweh was absolutely a collective thoughtform of God manifested in the physical world. Yahweh, was literally amongst the israelites like a cloud that followed them. This is not literally God, but it is a manifestation of God albeit through a thoughtform projection that's been sacrificed to, to give it physical manifestation.
ok...this is a little disrespectful too, saying it in this way...because it would undermine just how powerful the 'good' side really is. The problem with that thoughtform, Yahweh was...it was too frightful for the israelites. You have to consider the mindset of the israelite nation..Yahweh was like a fire that would burn them when they did wrong.
That is why they later wished for God to instead manifest through a chosen person (ie Jesus AS).
For the false messiah to give breath to the image suggests he will have harnessed a global level of energy (because in the context, the BEAST is a global system..and the image of the beast is effectively an image of the entire world population).
This is easy..it is easy to manipulate people's energy flow by corrupting their chakras (the energy centres).
I know, you're christian and therefore don't 'believe' in the idea of chakras, but it's just a way of describing aspects of ourself by connecting them with a certain part of the body. But it is interesting when you read related material how one thing in one religion totally fits in with something from another, because no matter what people choose to believe, our metaphysical reality is one...and that's from God. The spirit was BREATHED into man. The body is animated by the breath..
The technological AI aspect to the prophecy is one i accept but i believe that's the 'mark' of the Beast.