"America is the exact power specified in this mysterious verse in Revelation 13:11:
"Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon."
Its "two horns" would be "like a lamb." Each word here is significant. The true Lamb of God is Jesus Christ. "Like a lamb," indicates that this nation would have Christian features. A lamb is a young animal, a baby sheep. So, this nation would at one time be youthful and new. The two horns themselves are considered to be lamblike.
When Jesus was challenged by tricky Pharisees whether it was lawful for Jews to pay taxes or not, He insightfully responded: "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's" (Matt. 22:21).
"Caesar" represents government, while "the things that are God's" represent the things of religion and the church. In this teaching, Jesus Christ, the Lamb, clearly showed a proper separation between the two. Amazingly, this exact principle—which is historically rooted in the teaching of Jesus—has become the cornerstone of the first amendment of the U.S. Bill of Rights, which says: