The power which the first beast exercised was a terrible power of oppression against the people of God.

And this is a further indication of the character which the two-horned beast is finally to sustain in this respect.
The latter part of the verse, "And causeth the earth and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed," is still further proof that the two-horned beast is no phase nor feature of the papacy; for the first beast is certainly competent to enforce his own worship in his own country, and from his own subjects.
But it is the two-horned beast which causes the earth (the territory out of which it arose and over which it rules) and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast.

This shows that this beast occupies territory over which the first beast has no jurisdiction.
"And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men." That we are living in an age of wonders none deny.

Time was, and that not two score of years ago, when the bare mention of achievements which now constitute the warp and woof of every-day life, were considered the wildest chimeras of a diseased imagination.

Now, nothing is too wonderful to be believed, nor too strange to happen.