Daniel 7:8 "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."
A "horn" in prophecy represents a king or kingdom - we can see this in Daniel 8...
Daniel 8:21 "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king."
This power would completely destroy three of the 10 horns of Daniel 7 – three of the 10 nations that overthrew the Roman empire:
Heruli - plucked up / destroyed
Ostrogoths - plucked up / destroyed
Vandals - plucked up / destroyed
When Pagan Rome fell in 476 AD it resulted in the formation of ten separate kingdoms. Three of these ten kingdoms rejected the idea of a "universal / Catholic faith" – this faith was both religious as well as political so as to better control the people of the fallen nation of Rome.
"The three divisions which were plucked up were the Heruli in 493 the Vandals in 534 and the Ostrogoths in 538. Justinian, the emperor, who we see was at Constantinople, working through the general Belisarius, was the power that overthrew the three kingdoms represented by the three horns, and the reason for their overthrow was their adherence to Arianism in opposition to the orthodox Catholic faith." The book of Daniel, page 109
"Vigilius...ascended the papal chair (538 AD) under the military protection of Belisarius." History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3, p. 327
"Catholic emperors of the eastern empire found ways to help the pope by eliminating three of the Arian tribes. (These "Arian type" nations would not agree with the popes plans) The Catholic emperor Zeno (474-491) arranged a treaty with the Ostrogoths in 487 which resulted in the eradication of the kingdom of the Arian Heruls in 492. And the catholic emperor Justinian (527-565) exterminated the Arian Vandals in 534 and signifcally broke the power of the Arian Ostrogoths in 538. Thus were Daniels three horns - The Heruls, the Vandals, and the Ostrogoths - "plucked up by the roots." C. Mervyn Maxwell, God Cares Vol. 1, p. 129
This happened exactly as Daniel prophesied. With the fall of the Ostrogoths in 538 AD the political entity we today refer to as the "Roman Catholic institution," began its official reign as the last part of this fourth beast mentioned in the prophecy of Daniel 7.
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