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Daniel and the ten horns/little horn..
I don't agree with the SDA's interpretation of the ten horns being ten kingdoms, as the horns are said to be kings, in Daniel. The SDA claim that the 10 horns were the ten barbarian kingdoms, which arose out of the Western Roman Empire, and the three horns plucked up were the - Heruli, Vandals and Ostogoths - were eliminated by the year 538 AD. (this power was to arise between 476 AD and 538 AD (allegedly papal Rome).
There are other problems with this interpretation, besides the fact that a horn is a king and not a kingdom: what about the Eastern Roman Empire? - doesn't feature. The little horn that rises up out of the ten horns, is said by the SDA to be the papacy and popes, similar to what Luther believed.
They say that the papacy arose in 538 AD - is that true? - I doubt it - it seems to be a bit of a shoe-horn. I think the Roman Church was in place about 300 AD, and before that proto-Orthodox or Byzantine Greek Church?
And there is another problem with the theory: the fourth beast of Daniel's vision cannot be Rome - as Rome did not crush the Parthian/Persian Empire.
Some people claim that Islam fulfills the prophesy - but they make no mention of the three horns and try to claim that there are or will be ten Islamic countries in the end-days - so where are the three horns plucked out?
I think the most likely solution, is the preterist interpretation. The ten kings are the ten predecessors of Antiochus IV:
Where do the SDA derive the many years of the papacy from 3 1/2 years? - obviously that was the time that Antiochus persecuted the Jews in 167 BC.
None of this is about an end-times antichrist or final tribulation of 3 1/2 years.
I don't agree with the SDA's interpretation of the ten horns being ten kingdoms, as the horns are said to be kings, in Daniel. The SDA claim that the 10 horns were the ten barbarian kingdoms, which arose out of the Western Roman Empire, and the three horns plucked up were the - Heruli, Vandals and Ostogoths - were eliminated by the year 538 AD. (this power was to arise between 476 AD and 538 AD (allegedly papal Rome).
There are other problems with this interpretation, besides the fact that a horn is a king and not a kingdom: what about the Eastern Roman Empire? - doesn't feature. The little horn that rises up out of the ten horns, is said by the SDA to be the papacy and popes, similar to what Luther believed.
They say that the papacy arose in 538 AD - is that true? - I doubt it - it seems to be a bit of a shoe-horn. I think the Roman Church was in place about 300 AD, and before that proto-Orthodox or Byzantine Greek Church?
And there is another problem with the theory: the fourth beast of Daniel's vision cannot be Rome - as Rome did not crush the Parthian/Persian Empire.
Some people claim that Islam fulfills the prophesy - but they make no mention of the three horns and try to claim that there are or will be ten Islamic countries in the end-days - so where are the three horns plucked out?
I think the most likely solution, is the preterist interpretation. The ten kings are the ten predecessors of Antiochus IV:
- Seleucus I Nicator
- Antiochus I Soter
- Antiochus II Theos
- Seleucus II Callinicus
- Seleucus III Ceraunus (or Soter)
- Antiochus III the Great
- Seleucus IV Philopator
- [*Heliodorus] – killed Seleucus IV and took the throne; killed by Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- [*Demetrius I] – left in prison in Rome by Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- [*Antiochus] – infant, co-ruled with Antiochus IV Epiphanes until killed by Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- Little horn = Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
Where do the SDA derive the many years of the papacy from 3 1/2 years? - obviously that was the time that Antiochus persecuted the Jews in 167 BC.
None of this is about an end-times antichrist or final tribulation of 3 1/2 years.
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