The Image to the Beast

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 20.

The Image to the Beast

THERE is one expression in Rev. 13: 11-17 which points out most conclusively the correctness of the application of the two-horned beast symbol to the United States; and that is this: "Saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast." Verse 14. To say nothing of the representative form of government implied in the words "them" and "they," the call to "make an image" is sufficient to identify the government. Papal Rome, represented by the first beast, was a union of Church and State. To make an image would be to form such a union. Every other government in the world has such a union. The call here is to a government which has not such a union, which has neither the original nor the likeness. Therefore the call is to this government, the only one in the world, until the year of grace 1892, which did not have such an image. That image is now formed; and the rest of the prophecy will be as surely fulfilled.