[Southack]

"And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed."

The False Prophet will cause the statue to speak. That of course is believable today, though when Christians read that prophecy in previous eras it might have seemed impossible. However, with machines now equipped with human voices, we now take that phenomenon as not a phenomenon at all.

The False Prophet will command those in the environs of the statue to bow down to it"

There is no statue. The scripture says "image."

The image speaks, not a statue. Your TV display talking images, so does your computer. TV and Internet images can reach billions simultaneously; one statue can't do that.

[Larry Lucido]

TV and Internet images can reach billions simultaneously; one statue can't do that.

Which would make it a .................. statue of limitations.

(Sorry)

[Thinkin' Gal]

The image speaks, not a statue.

Come to think of it, Caesar's image was on the coin. As they say, "Money talks..."

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"One statue can't do that"

Hmmm. Al Gore invented the Internet and was able to reach millions of people when he was running for President, so...