LITTLE HORN POWER OF DANIEL CHAPTER 7

Sir,
 
In Daniel 7, we see the same four powers as in Chapter 2, this time represented by beasts from the sea. Babylon is represented by the lion with two wings, Medo Persia by a bear with three ribs, Greece by a leopard with four heads and Rome by the fourth beast with 10 horns.

The horns symbolise the European nations that emerged after the collapse of the Roman Empire. This overview is then taken a step further and our attention is shifted from the beast to a little horn that sprang up on the fourth beast.

The new piece of the prophetic picture that wasn’t there in Daniel 2 is explained in the following verse; “I 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,” (Daniel 7:8).

Daniel was extremely curious about the identity of this ‘little horn’. In verse 19 he states that he wanted to know the truth about the fourth beast and the little horn. Then from verse 23 the angel definitively explains the meaning of the vision; “And the 10 horns out of this kingdom are 10 kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be different from the first ones, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time, times and the dividing of time,” (Verse 24,25).

The fact that the ‘little horn’ was basically a horn like all the others suggests that it was a political power. But its unique characteristics suggest that it was more than just a political entity. This power has a great deal to do with religion. It attempts to change God’s law and persecutes His people. People change governmental laws all the time but this power is doing something more. The fact that this ‘little horn’ attacks God’s people suggests that the law it seeks to change is God’s law.

Is there evidence in history that pinpoints the identity of the ‘little horn’? We need to find a religious-political power that rose with the decline of the Roman Empire. We need to find a power that defeated three of the 10 European tribes (three of the 10 horns uprooted). History demonstrates that the three fallen horns represent three tribes - the Heruli, Ostrogoths, and Vandals - these were defeated by a power which rose out of Rome.

Daniel describes this power, this little horn, as having the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking pompous words against God. In the New Testament this same power is depicted as the man of lawlessness, who will oppose and exalt himself over all that is worshipped and proclaiming himself to be God.

“Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God, or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God,” (2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4, 7).

Bopoto Gwinyai
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