Hero of Alexandria and Revelations

Hero of Alexandria was an Ancient Greek Engineer. As luck would have it, some of his society's important uses of engineering were to design and build moving statues or automata of the gods and godesses that could be used to put on a Disney-esque show and jamboree to edify the faithful in the temple where these statues resided. (Nowadays we no longer squander precious knowledge on trivia; all of our science is put to the betterment of mankind!)

Very good article http://alanbandy.com/?p=129
dealing with passages in Revelations 13:11-15:

 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth...

14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.  15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.

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