Can We Find the United States of America in the Bible in a Symbol?
1) Direct answer
Yes. The United States appears in Scripture as the lamb-like beast of Revelation 13:11–17.
2) Scriptural explanation
- Revelation 13:11 says, “I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”
- “Out of the earth” contrasts with the first beast that rose “out of the sea” (Revelation 13:1). The Bible interprets “sea” as “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues” (Revelation 17:15). So “earth” points to a sparsely populated land—a new continent.
- “Two horns like a lamb” speaks of a gentle, youthful power with two freedoms—civil and religious—and without crowns, meaning not a monarchy but a nation built on liberty.
- Yet it “speaks as a dragon,” showing that the voice of power later turns harsh and authoritative.
- It “exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him” and “causeth the earth… to worship the first beast” (Revelation 13:12), pointing to a nation that eventually supports and enforces a church-system image to the old Roman power (Revelation 13:14–15).
- It works wonders, “so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men” (Revelation 13:13), a plain picture of astounding technological power displayed before the world.
- It drives economic control: “that no man might buy or sell” except under its mark system (Revelation 13:16–17).
3) Simple clarifying logic
- What nation rose late, not out of the crowded “sea” of old empires, but from a relatively empty land? The United States.
- What nation began lamb-like with two great liberties—civil and religious—without crowns, no king, built on freedom? The United States.
- What nation gained the capacity to call down “fire from heaven” in the sight of men? The United States.
- What nation now has global reach to influence worship, policy, and economics, and will be able to back a church-union image with state power? The United States fits the Scripture exactly.
4) Reinforcing statement
Now notice, the Bible shows a gentle start and a dragon voice at the end. That is the mystery of this prophecy. The wise will not fear man’s image or mark; they will keep the Word of God and follow the Lamb of God alone.
Existing Follow-Up Answers
- The United States Currently Backs Israel. If It Eventually Powers Rome Worship, That Means at Some Point It Will Abandon Israel?
Yes. Prophecy shows a global turn against Jerusalem, so the United States will not remain Israel’s shield when it “speaks as a dragon.” Scriptura
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Balm in Gilead
59-1124 §50
Did you ever chase that word down? "He that believeth on Me, has eternal life." If you'll take that out of the Greek, it's the word Zoe, which means, "God's own life in you." You are no longer yourself, but you're a child of God. Here a few weeks ago, my wife sitting back there, she and I was going to a grocery store to get some groceries. And I was amazed to find one lady with a skirt on. And I said, "Meda, what about that?" She said, "What I'm asking you, Bill," said, "you come back from overseas, you say they do...
Broken Cisterns
64-0726E §24
And it's a strange thing that this United States appears on the scene, and it's a ... like a lamb. And a lamb has two small horns, civil and ecclesiastical rites. And after awhile when that was a lamb, we found out that it spoke then like a dragon and exercised all the power the dragon had before it. And the Bible tells us that they said, "Let us make a image unto the beast." A image is something like something else. And we can see it right now that in it's apostate condition the church is forming the World Council...
The sin of unbelief
58-0517E §16
And we see that Israel was safe as long as they were rallying around their God. And this must have started a great curiosity everywhere. People passing by would see the unity and the oneness of Israel. And that spread out from nation to nation. It would be the same way in our great, beautiful, lovely country today of America. If all the churches would get together, and the Christians put their hearts together, and "The people that's called by my name shall assemble themselves together and pray, then I'll hear from...
The sign of the uniting time
63-0818 §44
You can't as a citizen... I can't as a citizen, as a citizen of the United States, yet if you'd give me a check for five dollars I'd be daresn't to put my name on it. See, I couldn't do it. See, it's a uniting time. It all has to go through some union of some sort, and that union is the very thing that brings the mark of the beast, see. It's a uniting time, and it's working right on up into that. You can see it just with your plain eyes, if you'd look at it. It's a uniting time, where everything is uniting together...
Have not I sent thee?
62-0124 §92
First time Christ come was through the virgin. Next time He comes is through the lion of the tribe of Judah. The crossed fishes, the cancer age, and all, as you read it through---as Job studied it. And you who read the book of Job, you'll understand. Now the devil, 'course, takes and does things with that. Then we come back to the next one they call the pyramid teaching. Don't never go after it. You got a Bible to go after, see. Now the next was the pyramid---but if you'll just get the real meaning behind it. Now w...