At about the same time the first beast (the Pacacy) went into captivity in 1798 under Napoleon, (Rev 13:10) we read, "And I beheld another beast..."(Rev. 13:11). (The U.S.A. was recognized by France as a world power around 1798.) He comes up out of the earth, (a sparsely populated area) and has two horns like a lamb,(a christian nation),but speaks as a dragon. (A kingdom speaks through its laws). Two horns without crowns - civil liberty (no king) and religious liberty (no Pope). (One of our nation's symbols is the buffalo).(The first beast arose out of the sea (representing the Papacy's growth in the populated, peopled areas of Europe (see Rev.17:15).

Early Americans made clear statements about the separation of church and state. George Washington in 1789 said, "Every man conducting himself as a good citizen and being accountable to God alone for his religious options ought to be protected in worshipping the deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."

Benjamin Franklin said this, "When religion is good, it will take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it so that it has to APPEAL TO THE CIVIL POWER FOR SUPPORT, it's evidence in my mind that the cause is a bad one."
(Christian Coalition? Didn't Jesus say, "My kingdom is not of this world, else my servants would fight"?)

Ulysses S. Grant, in the 1800s said, "Leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separated."

Rev. 13:12 says, "And he (the United States) exercises all the power of the first beast (Papal Rome) before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."
Protestant America (the whore's daughters Rev.17:5 Rome insists she's the "Mother Church") will stretch its hand across the ocean to unite hands with the Papacy (Haven't we already seen it, such as when President Reagan and the Pope united to bring down communism?)

Church, I never thought I would see the day when Evangelicals would be embracing the Roman church. Men I love and admire, such as Billy Graham, Chuck Colson, Pat Robertson, etc. It must be the love of the truth - the Word of God that unites us - doctrine DOES matter.

The Dragon (Satan) wanted to be God, the first beast (Papacy) wants to be Jesus Christ,
"The leader of the Catholic church is defined by the faith as the Vicar of Jesus Christ (and is accepted as such by believers). The Pope is considered the man on earth who "takes the place" of the Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity." John Paul ll, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, p.3, 1994.
The last beast aims to replace the Holy Spirit, in pointing people to the first beast.