"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.
3. It comes up out of the earth.The preceding beast, and the four great beasts of Daniel 7, came up
out of the sea, that is, arose in territory thickly populated; for waters denote peoples and nations and tongues. Rev. 17:15; Isa. 8:7.
---Coming up out of the earth would signify, by contrast with coming up out of the sea, the development of the power in question in a territory new, and previously unoccupied by civilized nations.
This, again, points directly to the New World, and to our own country."
Uriah Smith
