It arose out of the fourth beast
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One indicator Daniel 7 gives about the little horn power is that it would arise out of the fourth beast, that is, ancient Rome.
After 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. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn (Daniel 7:7-8).
Papal Rome arose out of the ashes of pagan Rome. Historian Carl Eckhardt says this:When the Roman empire had disintegrated and its place had been taken by a number of rude, barbarous kingdoms, the Roman Catholic Church not only became independent of the state in religious affairs but dominated secular affairs as well. i
All historians agree that papal Rome emerged out of the ruins of the ancient pagan Roman Empire. Thomas Hobbes, English Historian, says this:If a man consider the origin of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.ii
The description of the little horn power is in connection with the fourth beast. This is very important, since there are many who adopt a preterist view of the Antichrist and would like to associate the Antichrist with Antiochus Epiphanes IV, a Greek king who persecuted the Jews and desecrated the temple. This would, however, not fit the prophecy, as the Antichrist is to arise out of the fourth beast, which is Rome.
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i Carl Conrad Eckhardt, The Papacy and World Affairs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1937): 1.
ii Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: 457.
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