Pay attention to the prophecy

  And from one of them sprang up another horn, a small one, and it grew very great towards the south and towards the east and towards the Decoration - Daniel 8:9 This article is a natural continuation of the previous two articles titled “Daniel: Beasts of the Past in the Time of the End”   1   and “Who Are the 7 Kings?”   2   . These articles have shown how the number of kings described in Nebuchadnezzar's dream statue are four and not five (and how this is in harmony with Daniel 7:17), how this requires us to consider Rome part or an evolution of the empire (i.e. the copper belly and thighs or the four-headed leopard) and how the fact that all of Daniel chapter seven takes place in the time of the end finally allows us to understand who the seven kings of Revelation chapter 17 are. In the article titled “Who is the little horn that became great?”   3   mentioned Russia as that fateful little horn because it was thought that, although Scripture clearly speaks of the end-time, only

  And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, but when he does he shall stay a little while.   And the wild beast which was but is not, is also an eighth [king], but is of the seven, and goes away into destruction - Revelation 17:10, 11 As we introduced in the previous article, namely the one entitled “   Daniel: the beasts of the past in the time of the end   ”   1   understanding the number of empires described in the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream will lead us to understand interesting details about the little horn. This is because Scripture has an absolutely solid internal coherence and consequently, by putting in place a piece that had previously been put in the wrong place, other things will begin to fit together that, perhaps, we no longer even thought about. We have said that if Rome is present in the prophecy it must be part of the third realm of the statue, i.e. the copper belly and thighs. This observation also leads us to conclude