What Does Worshipping the Image of the Beast (Revelation 13:15) Mean?
by Greg Loucks

Revelation 13:15 “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

We today are bombarded by images everywhere. In one of my email accounts I get spam about X Rated links. Many of us do today! I choose not to click on them. But, if I did click on them and viewed the image. There is an emotional connection made to the image, when one views a pornographic image.

People need their emotions fulfilled. Some fill it with lust such as pornography. Some fill it with drugs and alcohol or cigarettes. Which, yes, I’m sorry, are another form of drug. Not everything may be a “drug” but everything and anything can be a drug to someone. Like pornography or sex.

We are also bombarded by ads everywhere. Subliminally they are proven to give us some form of emotional value to want to go buy the item. Movies and tv and music also have an emotional value. We are bombarded by images of violence, and sex and drug use, to name a few through movies and tv.

I believe the media has played a major role in the slow decline of our morality of our society. We are more accepting then we used to be of things. At one time in the 1960s, people had a fit that the tv show “I Dream of Genie” showed the main character’s belly button. In the tv show of the 1950s “I Dream of Genie” even though Desi and Lucy were married they slept in two different beds in the same bedroom.

I’m not saying we should go back to that, however tv shows and movies portray homosexuality as acceptable behavior, like “Will and Grace” and “Queer Eye For the Straight Guy” for example.

And it’s not just homosexuality we have embraced as a whole as a society, it is also many other numerous sins. Sex outside of marriage aka fornication, murder, lying, etc.

Many things, many, many, many things give us an emotional feeling, this is why so many things are popular today. And it has made us lose focus on things of God, things that really matter, that have eternal value. Our flesh is weak and our mortal bodies want to be fulfilled emotionally. Anything that has an emotional value to you, do you get pulled towards. I believe this is one of the ways in the future in Revelation and even now the enemy is using his schemes to trick us and lose our focus on God and the things of God. I also believe one day the anti-Christ will use the same tactics, but it is already happening today!