Except that Revelation 13 talks about Satan the dragon giving power to his false prophet. The beast on the land is still the dragon on the seashore. This time in the form of a man with two horns of a lamb, yet speaking as a dragon. This man who has decieved humans for 2500 years. It is Satan himself creating his own image to bring to life. God allows Satan to do this. God allows Satan to bring that image to life. God allows Satan to have humanity either show the mark 666 on their foreheads and hands, or God allows Satan to cut their heads off. God allows Satan control during this 3.5 year period, and Satan will take all the advantage God will give him. But this only happens as a split in the week known as the Second Coming. There is no build up, because the years prior to the Second Coming is the harvest of the sheep and the goats. It is also the judgments of the seals, trumpets, and thunderings. The 4th seal alone states 1 quarter of the population is killed.
Yes it is soon. This year, next year, who knows? There are 6 trumpets and 7 thunderings to fit in less than 3 years. One of the trumpets last 5 months. Covid19 took about 5 months from one city in China to be a hot spot in New York City. 5 times 13 is 65 months. That is 5.4 years. Not all the judgments can be 5 months long. That will not fit in 3 years. So, no, I am not going to try to fit what Revelation says about the trib. into a specific time frame in the next 3 years, much less, all the details prophets in the OT mentioned.
If that is the burden of some here, and it is of God, not sure why it would need to contradict anything I have posted. But waiting for the antichrist is a big waste of time. We are not to look for false Christ nor false antichrist. Thus no one Antichrist. If that happens it will only happen in the 3.5 years mentioned in Revelation 13, not one second prior.
Check out my other post on Postrib Teaching (Who Jesus will Return For). Yes, angels do appear, at times, in the guise of men. But fallen angels do not seem to do this, or at least I haven't noticed it. I think that if Jesus referred to human antichrists, I should think that THE Antichrist is likewise human?
The progression you refer to is the Dragon standing on the seashore, with the Beast (Antichrist) coming up out of the sea, presumably to take his place on the land. And then we have the 2nd Beast with 2 horns also taking his stand on the land, together with the 1st Beast (the Antichrist).
Satan endows the 1st Beast with his own power. This does not make Satan the same as the Beast, but only the source of power for the Beast. The Beast is obviously both a human emperor and the empire he rules over, consisting of 7 kings and 10 nations. And so, the Beast refers to both emperor and empire, to both a single man and to the kingdom he rules over.
The 2nd Beast is a mere support for the 1st Beast. And so they represent a coalition, perhaps between Satanic leader and Antichristian religion.