You are right when you write "Rev.13:11-18 Scripture does not mention the "false prophet"." The "beast" of Revelation 13:1-10 is "Mystery Babylon" (Rev 17:6,15) the false/heretical religious system that the fourth empire of Daniel 7 will be built upon, the same heretical Gnostic religion that will empower both the False Prophet and the Antichrist...
Correction - the first beast of Rev.13:1-2 is a kingdom beast, because that's what the symbols from Dan.7 in Rev.13:2 are using to compare it with. It thus means literally, "...peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues..." like Jesus defined it to John in Rev.17:15. Same principle idea with the historical beast kingdoms of Daniel 7, they usurped many different peoples and nations.
The geographical area of Sumer-Babylon was the very first false idol worship of recorded history, which is where Bel worship originated with Sargon I. It's that system of false religion which has provided the basis for all later pagan false worship, including 1st and 2nd century Gnosticism. That's the 'MYSTERY' part, because it's about the ancient pagan "mystery schools" of initiation, which is where the origin of today's "one world government" beast is being derived. But it's not only... about false religion, it's about a literal structure over all nations and peoples upon the earth for the last days, i.e., a literal beast kingdom.
And within some of the Rev.13:1-10 verses, the subject moves back and forth between that beast kingdom and the dragon (Satan) who is over it, including the idea of the world worshipping that dragon. So let's not leave that out. Once again, the false prophet is not mentioned there in Rev.13, at all. So it's not proper to keep referring to it as if it were.
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Revelation 13:1 "And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads (Rev 17:8, 10)..." This is the first beast; "coming out of the sea" refers to the sea of humanity - the various tribes, nations, cultures that will make up this beast (Rev 17:15). The "ten heads" represent the ten kings of Ezekiel 38, 39 who will make up the end time geographical area of this beast (kingdom/empire). The "seven heads" represent the "seven kings" (caliphs) who are the Caliphate up to the eighth king (caliph) who is the Antichrist (See Rev 17:8).
Correction - the "seven heads" represent "seven mountains" per what Christ showed John in Rev.17:9. And the "woman" sits upon those "seven mountains" per that verse.. And then per the final verse of Rev.17:18, the "woman" is a "great city". That reveals just how you are mis-assigning what those "seven heads" are per the Scripture.
The "seven heads" (or "seven mountains"), represent seven geographical power centers upon the earth. They represent seven continents, which is essentially the same idea as the "peoples, and multitudes, and natitons, and tongues", which is where those are located upon the earth.
Per Daniel 7:24, the Antichrist is to "subdue" (shephal - humble) 3 of those kings. Doesn't mean destroying them, but lower their positions of authority. It's about the final beast kingdom structure once the Antichrist arrives to sudue 3 out of the 10 kings. It's about today's plan for a Tri-parte world division, the earth divided into 3 main regions (see Tri-Lateralism and Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski. My college history text included a quote from Jimmy Carter about the Tri-Lateral Commision. David Rockfeller chose him and Brzezinski to head it back in the 1970's towards the globalist goal of a 3-part world division). It's pointing to a final structure of 7 kings over the "seven heads" (seven continents), and then 3 kings over 3 regions of the earth, and then the Antichrist on top (11th or little horn-king of Dan.7).
So the "seven heads" are not seven kings, but geographical areas the ten kings minus 3 will rule over.
The 8 beast kings of Rev.17:10-11 are not those same ten kings of Rev.17:12. So the ten Islamic nations idea simply does not work.
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Revelation 13:11-12 "Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. He exercised all the authority of the first beast, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast."...This second beast of Revelation 13 is the False Prophet..."Coming out of the earth" symbolizes an earthly kingdom/empire which he must rule over.
Correction - the "another beast" is... Satan as a 2nd beast, a king, and he also is in the ROLE of a false prophet, and he also is the "dragon" of Rev.12:9 which Rev.13:11 is pointing directly to.
His "coming out of the earth" is about his ascending up from the "bottomless pit", JUST LIKE the Rev.11:7 verse partly reveals, as also like Rev.9:11 reveals him as "the angel of the bottomless pit", and as a "king". It's about Satan himself, coming DE FACTO, upon this earth in our dimension. He is going to present himself to the whole world as... GOD, and the majority are going to believe he is GOD, including deceived brethren that will believe he is The Christ.
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"Two horns like a lamb;" Lambs do not have horns. Here "two horns" represent power and "like a lamb" represents an imitation prophet or religious leader - thus the "like a lamb" infers that this will be a False Prophet of two sects - Sunni and Shiite. That this "lamb," or False Prophet "exercised all the authority of the first beast" simply means that, as the leader or Prophet of his religion, he is the leader of that religion and thus "exercises all the authority" of that religion.
The two horns represent POWERS like you say, which makes the idea of a lamb not having horns irrelevant. It is just that like you say, it's to show an IMITATION OF CHRIST.
But it does NOT mention the false prophet idea there, but his speaking as a "dragon" instead. Thus heeding the Scripture how it is actually written, that is Satan himself coming to imitate The Lamb Christ Jesus, but he will speak as the "dragon" (himself per Rev.12:9). The problem with the majority will be they will not 'recognize' his speaking as the "dragon". He will blaspheme our Heavenly Father, His Holy Name, His tabernacle, and those that dwell in Heaven (Rev.13:6). By his coming to try and play GOD and His Christ to deceive the whole world is how he will do that speaking as a "dragon". It's just that the majority will have no idea that he is the "dragon", Satan himself.
Thus men's doctrines assiging the Rev.19:20 "false prophet" to some flesh man is all for nought. It's Satan himself in that Role of false prophet, and as that 2nd beast, and as the dragon. This is why some use the concept of an "unholy trinity" for those 3 roles he will perform on earth in the sight of men. At Christ's coming, two of those three roles will go into the lake of fire and never manifest on earth again (the false prophet role, and the "another beast" or beast king role). Satan's role as the dragon will continue throughout Christ's future thousand years to its end (Rev.20).
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So Revelation 13 covers two of the three "beasts" of Revelation - The false religious system which is necessary if Satan is to be worship like God, and the religious system that will empower the False Prophet and the Antichrist (Islam).
Richard Neal - author Kingdom of the Antichrist
There's only TWO separate 'beasts' per our Lord's Revelation. The 1st beast is a kingdom, and the 2nd beast is Satan as its king. That's the same pattern Rev.17 follows also.
Your book is just going to continue the confusion many have today about the end time events.
