"Literal messages regarding nations ancient and modern are found in the sacred oracles. In view of the fact that prognostications were given concerning such kingdoms as Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, Damascus, Assyria, Egypt, England and Russia - to mention only a few, it does not seem probable that Inspiration would have ignored the United States. One authority has voiced this thought as follows: "It is inconceivable, in a divinely inspired foreview of the nations which were seen to have a signal part in the world's history, that the one nation which, more than any other, would come into a dominant position at the end of the age, should be left entirely unmentioned."