Uriah Smith, the leading Seventh-day Adventist editor of his generation, works through Revelation 13:11-17 verse by verse to argue that the lamb-like beast with two horns is the United States. He matches its rise, its republican and Protestant character and its coming enforcement of Sunday worship to the prophecy, warning of an alliance between politicians and the Roman Catholic Church.
A key document of nineteenth-century Adventist belief, frankly anti-Catholic in the manner of its time. Download the free EPUB.