Appeal is made to the people, showing conclusively that the power is in their hands.

But just as surely as the government symbolized is a republic, so surely is it none other than the United States of America.
We have seen that the wonder-working Satanic agencies, which are to perform the foretold miracles, and prepare the people for the next step in the prophecy, the formation of the image, are already in the field, and have even now wrought out a work of vast proportion in our country; and we now hasten forward to the very important inquiry, What will constitute the image?
and what steps are necessary to its formation?
The people are to be called upon to make an image _to_ the beast, which expression doubtless involves the idea of some deferential action toward, or concessions to, that power; and the image, when made, is an image, likeness, or representation _of_ the beast.

Verse 15.

The beast from which the image is modeled, is the one which had a wound by a sword and did live, or the papacy.

From this point is seen the collusion of the two-horned beast with the leopard or papal beast.