The United States has fully disconnected itself from righteousness, and this is crystal clear in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy. I want to share something out of Testimonies, Volume 5, page 451 on this subject. By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp the hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its constitution as a Protestant and Republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan, and that the end is near. Brothers and sisters, that's black and white. When the United States passes the Sunday Law, then we know the time has come for Satan to personate Christ. His marvelous working time period is underway. This is in agreement with Revelation 13, verses 11 to 14, where we see the United States speak as a dragon, in verse 11, and then in verse 12 and onward, it says this, And he exercised all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image of the beast which had the wound by the sword and did live. Revelation 13, 12 through 14. Now brothers and sisters, sometimes you'll get some hesitation or confusion on this subject because you'll say verse 11 here is the lamb-like beast, it speaks like a dragon, that's the United States. And then in these next verses, you see a he that's bringing fire down from heaven that is using miracles to force them that dwell on the earth to set up an image of the beast and people say, well, is that the United States or is that Satan? And what needs to be recognized here, this is a little bit bigger study than I want to get into here, but if you go back into Revelation 12 on into 13, you'll find three kingdoms of Bible prophecy. In Revelation 12, you see the dragon, Satan, but Sister White is clear that in the Great Controversy, she's clear that in a secondary sense, the dragon in Revelation 12 is symbolizing pagan Rome because pagan Rome was the political kingdom that he was using in Revelation 12 when Christ came upon earth. It's the political kingdom that Satan used to put Christ to the cross. So the dragon in Revelation 12 is directly connected or associated with pagan Rome.