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Psalm 132
Isaiah 11
Ezekiel 29
The idea in the passages above is that of a descendant of David becoming king, an ‘anointed one’ (in English, another term is ‘messiah’). The symbology used here is of a ‘Branch’ shooting forth and of a ‘horn sprouting’ (as from an animal). So, the ‘Branch’ is synonymous with a ‘horn that is sprouting’, and both are synonymous with being an anointed one (a ‘messiah’). This ‘horn sprouting’ is the basis for the idea of the ‘little horn’ that is present in Daniel 7 and 8.
In Ezekiel 29 above, the king of Babylon defeats the king of Tyre (the king of Tyre calls himself God) and then the king of Babylon is allowed to take over Egypt as a reward. When Tyre and Egypt have been taken over, then a ‘horn sprouts’ and speaks among Israel.
This ‘horn sprouting’ is a reference to Jesus Christ’s establishment of the kingdom of heaven at the 7th Trumpet in Revelation 14:2-3 (after symbolic ‘Egypt’ [literal Jerusalem] is taken over in Revelation 11:8 at the end of the 2nd woe, end of the 6th Trumpet).
Revelation 14
Revelation 11:8
Its double meaning, in a negative sense, is a reference to the Daniel 7 Little Horn (in Hebrew, ‘misseirah qeren’) and the Daniel 8 Little Horn (in Hebrew, ‘zeerah qeren’) and the ‘abominable Branch’ in Isaiah 14:3-4, 19 (an ‘abominable messiah’ that is also the king of Babylon who will mimic being resurrected like Jesus Christ).
The Daniel 7 Little Horn ‘sprouts’ and ‘comes up among’ ten other horns (Daniel 7:8) and the Daniel 8 Little Horn ‘sprouts’ and ‘emerged and became exceedingly great’ out of one of four horns (Daniel 8:9). Both little horns also ‘open their mouths’ to speak among Israel.
In Daniel 7:8 the little horn speaks boastfully:
In Daniel 8, the little horn speaks boastfully about itself also:
In other words, according to Ezekiel 29, the defeat of the king of Tyre (who calls himself God) is a pre-requisite for the Daniel 7 Little Horn (the ‘antichrist’) to be able to show up.
Now we can begin to look at a simplified version of the sequence of end-time events. Note that this is a template of events using the Bible’s own symbology to define itself. Various terms and figures have literal and symbolic fulfillments (the interpretations of which I will present my opinions strictly as opinions).
After this simple overview, we will look at a more detailed version and the scripture behind these events.
The historical understanding of Daniel 2's four kingdoms that arrive before Jesus' arrival are Babylon, Medes with the Persians, 'Greece' (Javan), and the 4th kingdom as Rome.
In Daniel 7, these are all present at the same time and in a slightly different arrangement.
The first attack is by the king of Assyria upon Israel. Assyria is in league with Tyre and others in the Psalm 83 coalition.
Because the third beast, the 4 headed Leopard, is such a clear analog to the ruler of Javan ('Greece') with its 4 horns in Daniel 8, we can infer that the ruler of Persia is the 2nd beast (which is reinforced by Daniel 10:20 which describes a latter day attack by the ruler of Persia and then the coming of the ruler of Javan ('Greece').
And so, the 2nd beast, the bear, would refer to the Medes and Persia, just the same as in Daniel 2's historical understanding. The Medes destroy Babylon.
Of course, this 'burnt mountain' imagery is referenced in the 2nd Trumpet's 'burning mountain'. Also, Persia is part of the Gog coalition in Ezekiel 38:5.
Moreover, if we understand Daniel 9:26's ' the people of the ruler to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary' as meaning the 'kinsman' of the ruler to come, look at who is kinsman to Magog in Genesis 10
The third beast is the 4 headed Leopard, which would be Javan and the 4 horns of Daniel 8 in the latter days. Tyre is selling Judah into spiritual slavery to Javan (via the mark of the beast presumably) (Joel 3:6). Javan is given dominion over the earth (Daniel 7:6 and Daniel 2:39 if you understand it in a futurist sense: Dan 2:39 Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.)
Then the Daniel 7 4th beast comes, which is Babylon.
This is what is occurring at the 6th Trumpet: the 4th beast of Daniel 7, Babylon, is 'devouring and crushing' the whole world.
After it is done treading on the whole world and defeating Javan (whatever political entity this is) and defeats Tyre and Egypt, then the little horn of Daniel 7 can arise.
This Daniel 7 Little Horn confirms the covenant of Daniel 9:27 and breaks it after the 2 witnesses 1260 days, at the end of the 2nd woe. Then the Daniel 8 Little Horn can arise from the Javan political entity that split into 4 in the 'latter part of their kingdom' (Daniel 8:23) which is after the Daniel 7 Little Horn is killed:
Daniel 7
11 The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne. 12 If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.” 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home: 14 “This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home. 15 I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread. 16 I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints will sing out in joy. 17 There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
Isaiah 11
1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. 2 And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
Ezekiel 29
17 In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.
19 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his labor, because it was done for Me, declares the Lord GOD.
21 In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
The idea in the passages above is that of a descendant of David becoming king, an ‘anointed one’ (in English, another term is ‘messiah’). The symbology used here is of a ‘Branch’ shooting forth and of a ‘horn sprouting’ (as from an animal). So, the ‘Branch’ is synonymous with a ‘horn that is sprouting’, and both are synonymous with being an anointed one (a ‘messiah’). This ‘horn sprouting’ is the basis for the idea of the ‘little horn’ that is present in Daniel 7 and 8.
In Ezekiel 29 above, the king of Babylon defeats the king of Tyre (the king of Tyre calls himself God) and then the king of Babylon is allowed to take over Egypt as a reward. When Tyre and Egypt have been taken over, then a ‘horn sprouts’ and speaks among Israel.
This ‘horn sprouting’ is a reference to Jesus Christ’s establishment of the kingdom of heaven at the 7th Trumpet in Revelation 14:2-3 (after symbolic ‘Egypt’ [literal Jerusalem] is taken over in Revelation 11:8 at the end of the 2nd woe, end of the 6th Trumpet).
Revelation 14
2 And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, 3 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Revelation 11:8
and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
Its double meaning, in a negative sense, is a reference to the Daniel 7 Little Horn (in Hebrew, ‘misseirah qeren’) and the Daniel 8 Little Horn (in Hebrew, ‘zeerah qeren’) and the ‘abominable Branch’ in Isaiah 14:3-4, 19 (an ‘abominable messiah’ that is also the king of Babylon who will mimic being resurrected like Jesus Christ).
3 When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, 4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased! […]
19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like the garment of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trodden underfoot.
The Daniel 7 Little Horn ‘sprouts’ and ‘comes up among’ ten other horns (Daniel 7:8) and the Daniel 8 Little Horn ‘sprouts’ and ‘emerged and became exceedingly great’ out of one of four horns (Daniel 8:9). Both little horns also ‘open their mouths’ to speak among Israel.
In Daniel 7:8 the little horn speaks boastfully:
While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
In Daniel 8, the little horn speaks boastfully about itself also:
10 It grew as high as the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the earth, and trampled them. 11 It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
In other words, according to Ezekiel 29, the defeat of the king of Tyre (who calls himself God) is a pre-requisite for the Daniel 7 Little Horn (the ‘antichrist’) to be able to show up.
Now we can begin to look at a simplified version of the sequence of end-time events. Note that this is a template of events using the Bible’s own symbology to define itself. Various terms and figures have literal and symbolic fulfillments (the interpretations of which I will present my opinions strictly as opinions).
After this simple overview, we will look at a more detailed version and the scripture behind these events.
1. Assyria attacks Israel to destroy it. The king of Tyre calls himself God. Tyre has the purpose of enriching itself at the expense of Judah and Israel. (the Psalm 83 war) (start of the Trumpets and at the 1st Woe)
2. The Medes and Persians attack Israel. Gog attacks Israel. (the Gog war)
3. Shortly thereafter, the Medes attack Babylon. (the 2nd Trumpet’s ‘burning mountain’)
4. Javan (‘Greece’) (the Goat’s great horn) attacks and defeats the Medes and Persians.
5. With Babylon out of the picture, the king of Tyre (a very wealthy and self-proclaimed god-like being) seduces Judah into becoming the property of a new global government which will have some sort of reference point with ‘Greece’ (this is Javan, the #6 king of Revelation 17:10) (Joel 3:6). (*Note that there is a distinction between Ancient Javan & present Tyre vs. New future Javan & new future Tyre which we can discuss further.)
6. Babylon, after being beaten down by the Medes, comes back as the Daniel 7 4th beast that is treading down the whole world. Babylon destroys Tyre and many other nations. (This is what happening at the 6th Trumpet.)
3. Shortly thereafter, the Medes attack Babylon. (the 2nd Trumpet’s ‘burning mountain’)
4. Javan (‘Greece’) (the Goat’s great horn) attacks and defeats the Medes and Persians.
5. With Babylon out of the picture, the king of Tyre (a very wealthy and self-proclaimed god-like being) seduces Judah into becoming the property of a new global government which will have some sort of reference point with ‘Greece’ (this is Javan, the #6 king of Revelation 17:10) (Joel 3:6). (*Note that there is a distinction between Ancient Javan & present Tyre vs. New future Javan & new future Tyre which we can discuss further.)
6. Babylon, after being beaten down by the Medes, comes back as the Daniel 7 4th beast that is treading down the whole world. Babylon destroys Tyre and many other nations. (This is what happening at the 6th Trumpet.)
7. After being ‘trampled down by the Daniel 7 4th beast’, Javan, the ‘Goat’s great horn,’ splits into 4 parts - the Daniel 7 Leopard with 4 heads.
8. Babylon takes over Egypt as ‘payment’ for destroying Tyre for God (‘breaking Egypt’s arm’ in Ezekiel 30:21-22).
9. A ‘horn now sprouts’ after Tyre is destroyed and becomes the new king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4) (the 10 tribes of Psalm 83 associated with Tyre is one possible application to the 10 horns on Daniel 7’s 4th beast). This particular item has an important double meaning.
a. In its deceptive, negative sense, this is the 11th horn of the Daniel 7 4th beast, the ‘little horn’ that comes after the 10 horns and speaks to blaspheme God. This ‘horn’ is the king of Babylon, ‘Lucifer,’ from Isaiah 14, who is called the ‘abominable Branch’. ‘Lucifer’ confirms the holy covenant (Daniel 9:27). This person is what people traditionally think of as the ‘antichrist’ and is the #7 king of Revelation 17:10.
b. In its positive sense, this is the ‘Branch’, new Yeshua (‘Joshua’/ ‘Jesus’) who is one of the 2 witnesses (the 2 anointed ones, Joshua and Zerubabbel, of Zechariah 2-4)
c. Micah 5:2-6 indicates a ‘little one’ that will become great and rule Israel after Assyria attacks. Whether this individual is one of the 2 witnesses or is a little horn (an anti-messiah) is unclear.
10. The king of Babylon breaks the holy covenant after 1260 days (Daniel 9:27). Lucifer, aka Mystery Babylon (Sheshach), attacks Israel and ‘Egypt’ (Revelation 11:8) (breaking its ‘second arm’ in Ezekiel 30:21-22).
11. After ‘Egypt’ is taken over for the 2nd time (‘breaking Egypt’s second arm’), another ‘horn sprouts’, which is the False Prophet, the beast from the earth. This is the future Daniel 8 Little Horn, the #8 king from Revelation 17:11, arising from one of the 4 horns of new Javan.
For the most part this sequence is derived from Daniel 7's four beasts.
The historical understanding of Daniel 2's four kingdoms that arrive before Jesus' arrival are Babylon, Medes with the Persians, 'Greece' (Javan), and the 4th kingdom as Rome.
In Daniel 7, these are all present at the same time and in a slightly different arrangement.
The first attack is by the king of Assyria upon Israel. Assyria is in league with Tyre and others in the Psalm 83 coalition.
Daniel 7:4 The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and given the mind of a man.
Jeremiah 50:17 “Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him,
Because the third beast, the 4 headed Leopard, is such a clear analog to the ruler of Javan ('Greece') with its 4 horns in Daniel 8, we can infer that the ruler of Persia is the 2nd beast (which is reinforced by Daniel 10:20 which describes a latter day attack by the ruler of Persia and then the coming of the ruler of Javan ('Greece').
And so, the 2nd beast, the bear, would refer to the Medes and Persia, just the same as in Daniel 2's historical understanding. The Medes destroy Babylon.
Jeremiah 51
11“Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.
24“I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.
25“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
declares the Lord,
which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the crags,
and make you a burnt mountain.
11“Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.
24“I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.
25“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
declares the Lord,
which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the crags,
and make you a burnt mountain.
Of course, this 'burnt mountain' imagery is referenced in the 2nd Trumpet's 'burning mountain'. Also, Persia is part of the Gog coalition in Ezekiel 38:5.
Moreover, if we understand Daniel 9:26's ' the people of the ruler to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary' as meaning the 'kinsman' of the ruler to come, look at who is kinsman to Magog in Genesis 10
2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Medes, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
The third beast is the 4 headed Leopard, which would be Javan and the 4 horns of Daniel 8 in the latter days. Tyre is selling Judah into spiritual slavery to Javan (via the mark of the beast presumably) (Joel 3:6). Javan is given dominion over the earth (Daniel 7:6 and Daniel 2:39 if you understand it in a futurist sense: Dan 2:39 Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.)
Then the Daniel 7 4th beast comes, which is Babylon.
Daniel 7:7 After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.
Jeremiah 50:17 “Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.
This is what is occurring at the 6th Trumpet: the 4th beast of Daniel 7, Babylon, is 'devouring and crushing' the whole world.
After it is done treading on the whole world and defeating Javan (whatever political entity this is) and defeats Tyre and Egypt, then the little horn of Daniel 7 can arise.
This Daniel 7 Little Horn confirms the covenant of Daniel 9:27 and breaks it after the 2 witnesses 1260 days, at the end of the 2nd woe. Then the Daniel 8 Little Horn can arise from the Javan political entity that split into 4 in the 'latter part of their kingdom' (Daniel 8:23) which is after the Daniel 7 Little Horn is killed:
Daniel 7
11“I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire. 12As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
When the remaining beasts (the lion, bear, and leopard) are given an extension of life, this is when the 'latter part' is where the Daniel 8 Little Horn arises.
