Over 1600 years passed between the Apostolic Age and the founding of the United States of America. As America today finds itself at the heart of worldwide conflict and policy as the world's wealthiest nation, prophecy students cannot help but wonder whether the nation's emergence as a superpower is fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. Varying opinions have proposed diverging theories such as that the United States will cease to be a factor after the rapture or that it might be the Mystery Babylon found in Revelation. Other scholars argue that America will have no role in what is essentially a Middle Eastern drama. Our generation is not the first to ponder the destiny of the world's greatest democratic experiment. In 1874 Uriah Smith published The United States in the Light of Prophecy; Or, An Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17 in which he developed the argument that the United States is represented by the Two-horned beast seen by the Apostle John in his Revelation vision. Whether you agree or not, Smith's classic provides a wonderful historical perspective of a noted prophecy scholar and his view of the United States in the late 19th Century. Alacrity Press is proud to reprint this classic work of Biblical prophecy commentary.