One way that the deceptive "image of the beast" could be a clone:

http://www.whale.to/b/sp/ax3.html#Cl._Actual_Clones

Cloning is much further along in technology than most people would believe.  Someone could receive a actual fatal wound and die, and then his clone would appear in public as if he had come back to life again....and this would be totally amazing, worldwide.  But it will be a total deception.

See Rev.13:14-15.  It could very well be a "manufactured" man.... it will not be human.  Yet, it will appear to be the dead person coming back to life again.  What a miracle! !!!  And it will be believed by most of the world.

Arlene