The Image of the Beast

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;(Exo 20:3-5)

The governments of men are a likeness or image of the Government of God which is a thing that is in heaven above.  It is not merely images which are prohibited by the commandment,