The United States in Prophecy
In prophecy the United States is represented by a "beast coming up out of the earth" with "two horns like a lamb." Other great nations in prophecy are represented by beasts coming up out of the sea. The sea, or waters, are prophetically explained to mean people, or multitudes. So, while other nations have gained ascendancy by conquest, the United States just grew into a great power worthy of special notice in prophecy because of its peculiar origin and characteristics. It can still be said of its material resources that they come up out of the earth. "In one year," says a statistical authority, "this country raised over 2,000,000,000 bushels of corn; in one year it raised more than 612,000,000 bushels of wheat, 809,000,000 bushels of oats, 27,000,000 bushels of rye, 16,000,000 bushels of barley, and 13,000,000 bushels of buckwheat, and on the farms to-day are over $2,000,000,000 worth of live stock. With all these totals, which no country has ever equaled, and which none can approach to-day, we have fully one-third of our area still uncultivated, with great deserts in the far West that are to be made green pastures and fertile farms by irrigation."