So you think the 10 horns are literal kingdoms but the little horn is a king who lives the whole span from 33AD to 2021.
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So you think the 10 horns are literal kingdoms but the little horn is a king who lives the whole span from 33AD to 2021.
You cannot change prophecy. If the other 10 horns are literal kingdoms (subdivisions of political powers/system), so is the little horn. IT IS NOT A SINGLE MAN. But, it certainly is represented by one (and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.)
It receives power to persecute for 1260 days (prophetic years). And, IT EXISTS UNTIL THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. That’s what Daniel 7:20-21 clearly reveals.
The Little Horn of Daniel 7 is the SAME AS the first beast (from the sea) in Revelation 13. They are the same and they come from ROME. (The first beast of Revelation 13 is a composite of Daniel’s beasts, which are kingdoms, and wear crowns, that demands and receives worship).
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
Horns, like heads, symbolize kings or kingdoms (7:24; cf. Psalm 132:17, Zechariah 1:18). They
give power to the beast they are on (Deuteronomy 33:17, I Kings 22:11, Psalm 75:11), just as
a “horn” can represent God’s power to save His people (Psalm 18:3, 132:17; Luke 1:69). Here,
they represent the same as the “ten toes” of the Daniel 2 image. There, they are of iron and
clay. Here, a distinction from the ruling empire is not made. That means that these ten horns
give the fourth beast power, which surpasses all the others.
The concepts of kings and kingdoms are interchangeable in Daniel’s dreams and visions. In Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, he (the king), was the head of gold on the image (2:38). Yet, the head was also the Babylonian kingdom. In the next chapter the he-goat was the “king of Greece” (8:21a), yet the single horn on its forehead was “the first king” (8:21b). Thus, the goat is not a single king but a kingdom.
This same rule, where the king/kingdom description is amalgamated, is later seen in the “king of the north” (11:5-35) and the “king of the south” prophecies, representing entire “kingdoms,” including even succession of kings or leaders. Here in 7:17, the four beasts are shown to represent four kings; in 7:23, the fourth is a kingdom.
TROUBLING ACTIVITY OF THAT LITTLE HORN
(Daniel 7 – Part 4)