This brings the worship unmistakably within the present century.
Says Eld.

J.Litch (Restitution, p.

131):-- "The two-horned beast is represented as a power existing and performing his part after the death and revival of the first beast." Mr.Wesley, in his notes on Rev.14, says of the two-horned beast:-- "He has not yet come, though he cannot be far off; for he is to appear at the end of the forty-two months of the first beast." We find three additional declarations in the book of Revelation which prove, in a general sense, that the two-horned beast performs his work with that generation of men who are to behold the closing up of all earthly scenes, and the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; and these will complete the argument on this point.
The first is the message of the third angel, brought to view in the 14th of Revelation.

It is not our purpose to enter into an exposition of the three messages of that chapter.

We call the attention of the reader to only one fact, which must be apparent to all; and that is, that the third of these messages is the last warning of danger, and the last offer of mercy, before the close of human probation; for the event which immediately follows is the appearance of one like the Son of man on a white cloud, coming to reap the harvest of the earth, verse 14, which can represent nothing else but the second advent of the Lord from Heaven.