Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
The following therefore is a brief breakdown of the identifying pointers of the second beast, according to the scriptures:
[1] It arises out of obscurity, in a sparsely populated area.
[2] It comes upon the world stage just around the time that the papacy receives its deadly wound.
[3] It exhibits gentleness initially, but later speaks like a dragon.
[4] It espouses the agenda and characteristics of the first beast.
God is telling us that the nation being referred to in the passages must be America, for it came upon the stage of action just around the time that the deadly wound was inflicted on the papacy, and thus, we’ll have to look for a nation arising around 1798, the year when the French general Berthier took pope Pius captive.
No other nation on earth matches that description except The United states of America, which came into existence when congress approved the nation’s independence on July 4, 1776. It’s the one and only nation to arise in a sparsely populated area, and as we all know, it is the only super-power remaining upon the planet. Thus, the lamb-like beast referenced in Revelation can be none other than the United States Of America.
Revelation 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!