Vladimir Putin is the first beast described in Revelation 13.
Understand That the ππππππ Beast Mimics Christβs Role
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. – Revelation 13:11
Jesus is the true Lamb of God (John 1:29).
And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. – Revelation 13:12
Jesus says greater is the Father (John 14:28).
Jesus says that He can do nothing except what He sees the Father doing (John 5:19).
Jesus tells us to worship the Father and pray to Him (John 4:23, Matthew 4:10, John 16:23).
He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. – Revelation 13:13
Jesus worked wonders on the earth, showing that He was sent by the Father and is the Son of God (The 37 Miracles of Jesus in Chronological Order).
Understand the correlation between the man of lawlessness and the second beast:
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. – II Thessalonians 2:9-10
He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. – Revelation 13:13-14
And that the man of lawlessness can only be revealed in his own time:
And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. – II Thessalonians 2:6
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. – Revelation 13:11
Understand that there is also a correlation between the second beast and the false prophet:
Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. – Revelation 19:20
Whoever the second beast (who is the antichrist, the false prophet, the man of lawlessness) is, he will be pointing people toward Vladimir Putin, the first beast.
They Mimic the Triune Nature of God
For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. – I John 5:7
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. – Revelation 16:13
End of the Age 