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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
which the leopard beast arose (Revelation

13:1), denotes peoples, nations, and

multitudes (Revelation 17:15), the earth

would suggest, by contrast, a new and

previously unoccupied territory.

Being thus excluded from Eastern continents,

and impressed with the idea of looking to

territory not previously known to civilization,

we turn of necessity to the Western

Hemisphere.

5. The Manner of Its Rise. — The manner in

which the two-horned beast was seen coming

up shows, equally with its location, age, and

chronology that it is a symbol of the United

States. John says he saw the beast coming up

“out of the earth.” And this expression must

have been designedly used to point out the

contrast between the rise of this beast and