They interpreted metaphorically, rather than intertextually. Our pioneers with their historicist assumptions failed to see the intertextual parallelisms between the two-horned beast of Revelation 13:11ff and the narratives of King Nebuchadnezzar (hereinafter called “King Nebi” for short) in Daniel 2, 3, and 7. Current scholarship has rediscovered the intertextuality of the Messianic allusions in the Old Testament and Messianic expectations of first-century Judaism as the primary sources for all of the narratives in the Apocalypse. There are several problems with this interpretation, however. A sign of this unification would be the enforcement of Sunday sacredness on pain of death. Apostate Protestantism, using civil power, would unite with spiritualism and Roman Catholicism. The United States would be “lamb-like” in its beginnings, but would ultimately become a persecuting power, speaking like the dragon of Revelation 12. The earth represented a wilderness area from which the United States arose. The two horns represented Protestantism and Republicanism. Historically, Seventh-day Adventists equated the two-horned lamb-like, dragon-speaking beast rising from the earth in Revelation 13:11-18 with the United States.
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