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7After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
The little horn comes out of the 4th beast. It comes up AMONG the 10 horns, THAT ALSO COME OUT OF THE 4TH BEAST. Nowhere does it say that any BEAST comes out of 10 nations. NOT THERE. Sounds like you are the one "blithely postulating and imposing"
If you had said the little horn comes out of one of the 10 nations, YOU WOULD STILL BE WRONG. The little horn comes out of the 4th beast, WHICH IS ROME. THE LITTLE HORN IS ROMAN.
So, use your brain and figure out what power came out of Pagan Rome and is still here today, and was responsible for torturing and murdering millions upon millions of Protestants, AND FITS ALL THE OTHER BIBLICAL CRITERIA FOR THE LITTLE HORN POWER....Fits every single one. Any guesses?
It will rise to be a great power after the fall of the pagan Roman Empire (after 476 AD)
It would uproot three of the ten kingdoms the Roman Empire collapsed into
It will be a geographically small nation (a little horn)
It will rule over many people, nations and tongues (it will be universal)
It will be headquartered in the city of seven hills, Rome
It will be a religio-political entity - a political city-state ruled by a priest-king
Its priest-king will make great and blasphemous claims
It will claim authority over all kings
It will claim its power to change the holy times and laws of God as its mark of authority
It will be an apostate Church that makes the nations drink her cup of apostate doctrine
It will be a “mother” Church, with apostate daughters coming from her
It will be a persecuting power, killing the faithful saints of Jesus Christ as heretics
It will hold power and authority for 1260 years following the fall of pagan Rome
It will suffer a deadly wound that will end 1260 years of dominance and persecution
It will be revived after the deadly wound, and all the world would wonder at its revival
Still nothing???
The beast comes from the ‘sea of peoples’ and it says right in the prophecy that 10 horns represent 10 kingdoms.
Philsworld,
Fascinating that the Geneva Bible folks pegged Rome and the Papacy/Pope Antichrist, never knowing the Pope(Antichrist) would eventually have their own namesake calendar.
And a scripture can actually expose it, as changing times and law.
But the Roman Julian does it too.
Satan’s false goddess frigg day vs the Father’s Passover.
The Roman Beast and Antichrist Papacy/Pope buys and sells Satan’s version.
And the world wanders after them..