Assertion: beast | /r/CapableOf | exercise authority
Facets:
value: by god’s
type: OTHER
value: over people
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for forty-two months
type: TEMPORAL
value: over tongue
type: MANNER
value: over nation
type: LOCATION
value: over every tribe
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: God grants the desires of the beast for a period of time, so that the beast exercises authority over every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.
text: Revelation 13:5-8 declares, “The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.
text: Such events do not mean God has abandoned or forgotten about them; the power of the beast does not suggest God’s sovereign rule over the world has been surrendered, for the beast exercises authority only by God’s will.