10 Point Identification of the Land Beast SERIES: 1

"Let us then look a little further at this symbol of Rev.13:11-17, and see if our government has developed any features in its past history, or present character, which answer to the specifications brought to view in the symbol.

1. John calls this “another beast,” showing that the nation was a different one from any which had thus far been represented by any of the preceding symbols. 

---But those symbols, as we have seen, cover all the available portions of the eastern hemisphere; 

---hence we must look for the power intended by this symbol to the western hemisphere. 

And when we turn to this locality, the eye is at once attracted by our own country, the great American colossus here arising." 

Uriah Smith