The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

possibly speak as a dragon, and still retain its
lamblike disposition. It therefore follows that the
Scriptures have portrayed that the United States
will in name retain its lamblike principles of
Protestantism and Republicanism, but in nature and
in practise it will deny them. This is national
hypocrisy; yea, it is national apostasy. There may
never in these United States exist, openly,
avowedly, and in name, a union of church and
state, which constitutes in itself the abandonment
of Protestantism; but the thing itself will be, and
even now is, here. We may never have an emperor
with a crown upon his brow; but Rome was
imperial, and an empire for long years, while still
retaining the image and name of a republic.
Now the “first beast” was Rome, once a
republic, but apostatized into an imperial
monarchy, degenerated into a military despotism;
united with a church once Protestant in principle,
but apostatized into the papacy. The union of these
two was, I say, the “first beast.”
Now when in the prophecy the image of the
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