“And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.”
The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months - the beast boasts and blasphemes, claiming what belongs to God alone. The forty-two months (three-and-a-half years) is the divinely appointed limit of persecution, beyond which Satan cannot go.
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