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.
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...
The true vine and the false vine
55-0607 §41
When I landed in India, the Indian men all met me out there and said, "Now, look, Brother Branham, as far as theology, you ain't got nothing in America that understands that book." And that's true. For that's an eastern book. It is not a western book. It's a different slant altogether. Said, "We know the Bible; we had it before you was even a nation, hundreds of years." That's exactly the truth. Saint Thomas went down there. I was right in the church where he preached. That's right. Said, "We know more about the Bi...
The faith once delivered to the saints
55-0501E §50
Oh, how I'd like to go on right here, but I can't. How I'd like to speak of the false prophet looking down upon Israel. And he thought, Surely that bunch of people all wandering around there in the wilderness like sheep from place to place. He thought, Surely, God would curse that people. But there was the voice of the King in the midst of them. Balaam couldn't see it. There was a sign among them: a smitten rock and a brass serpent going before them, making an atonement. And so is there with the church of God tonig...
The Oddball
64-0614E §22
Do you know the politicians can't judge right and wrong? You see them keeping quiet on this voting the Bible back in the church or into the---Bible back into the school? They don't know which way the politics are going to blow. Think of it! I don't know how it is in Indiana now, but in the State of Arizona it's against the law to read the Bible in school. I think it's the same thing in Indiana, nearly the whole United States, because some infidel woman changed the whole program. And remember, it's against the law t...