The Rise And Fall Of The Little Horn by Keith Malcomson

praise god we're coming to uh daniel chapter seven again here tonight we started on it last week i wanted to complete it in one message uh but we didn't get that far so i hope uh by the grace of god we'll get through it to a greater degree tonight and we'll continue in the weeks ahead in this absolute vital series on the heavens rule here tonight as we come to daniel chapter seven we're gonna again say that the heavens rule no matter what goes on in the earth in politics in nations or in our entire generation i want you to be convinced before we reach the end of daniel that the heavens to rule no matter what man does no matter what the devil does my message here tonight is the rise and the fall of the little horn reading from daniel chapter 7 and i want to read from verse 7 through until verse 12 here tonight reading from daniel 7 and verse 7 after this i saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth it divide and break in pieces and stamp the residue with the feet of it and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns i considered the horns and behold there came up among them a little horn before whom there were three of the first horns plugged up by the roots and behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man and of my speaking great things i beheld to the thrones were cast on and the ancient of days did set whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool his throne was like the fairy flame and his wheels as burning fire a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him thousand thousands ministered onto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him the judgment was set and the books were open i beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horns spake i beheld even to the beast was slain and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame as concerning the rests of the beasts they had their dominion taken away yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time let's pray here tonight in this bible study father i do pray nor god that you'd open our eyes lord god that you'd make us wise in this last generation lord god i pray for the opening of the book of daniel i pray that you open up the scriptures nor god that you'd so reveal this man called the little horn his kingdom and his dominion lord god that we're gonna be led to the feet of the son of god father i pray for a divine revelation lord god as we look at the kingdoms of men we'd be forced to look up to the kingdom of our god lord god as we behold what man has done the greatest of men that we would look to the man of your right hand lord god as we behold this little horn and it the prophecies concerning him lord god i pray that you grip our hearts with prophecies concerning the son of man that have yet not happened but lord god which we are caught up in in this last generation father i pray for the spirit of wisdom and understanding of revelation that you open our eyes that you open our ears that you open up our hearts that you'd incline them to hear and to understand lord god teach us as a people and make clear your word in jesus mighty name amen we started in chapter daniel in daniel chapter 7 last week and we want to finish it here this week these two chapters go together so make sure if you haven't heard last week's message go back to it and look at the teaching there because within last week it gives you the understanding to understand what i'm going to give you here tonight as i said last week in coming to daniel chapter 7 we begin looking at a very specific subject that continues to flow through to daniel chapter 12. it is the subject of a person called the little horn yes there's teaching about christ there's teaching about israel there's teaching about the last days there is much teaching about many other things but these chapters are given to open up and to reveal to us concerning the future history of someone called the little horn but saints here in this chapter seven listen to me very carefully as we behold the little horn he is going to be contrasted with someone else who is called the son of man these two persons in daniel chapter 7 are contrasted you see i've heard too many pastors and preachers and bible teachers say we don't need to bother about the teaching of antichrist in the bible they set it aside and make it of little importance to the church i believe that's a big mistake you see when god is going to teach us about true prophets he reveals false prophets from the bible when he's gonna show you truth he shows you air this is what god does all through the bible is compares and sets side by side the real with the faults that we might be taught and instructed and so when we come to daniel 7 through until daniel chapter 12. do you know what we're looking at we're looking at an example do you know that as the spirit of god chooses about this little man who's going to be the world leader of the last generation he is going to be the greatest world leader as far as men have ever produced we're going to see something about his political system that he belongs to that he rules over and that he arises in the midst of we're going to begin to see his geographical region in other words the country are the nationality of his birth we're going to read about his history why is it that the spirit of god lays all aside are we meant to ignore it no we're meant to study it it doesn't matter what generation of the church we lived in we should have been learning this teaching this and understanding this you know why it leads us to the lord jesus christ the little horn is contrasted with the son of god it says in revelation 19 and verse 10 listen the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy when we come to bible prophecy what is the spirit of prophecy it is the testimony of christ in other words as we look at bible prophecy we're always led to jesus christ we're always brought to calvary we're always brought to the lamb of god and so here tonight i want to contrast in this chapter daniel chapter 7. i want to contrast a little horn don't be scared of studying the antichrist or the little horn don't be drawn aside to believe it doesn't matter it is important it is vital because you know what if you don't understand the little horn you'll never understand the son of god how can you if you don't understand what the holy spirit teaches us about the kingdoms of men how will you ever understand about the kingdom of heaven and so in this chapter 7 we are taught about four kingdoms of man upon the earth why does he do that to lead us to teaching about the kingdom of heaven that's gonna come from heaven and reign upon the earth this is how god teaches us first he shows you the naturally earthly before he can possibly teach you the heavenly and the spiritual this is what he actually does since let me bring you to this message tonight the rise and the fall of the little horn that is my message but we're going to deal with an awful lot more you see as we come to daniel chapter 2 and daniel 7 i personally believe that the iron kingdom that we started to deal with last week of daniel is the roman empire that's what i believe the fourth kingdom of daniel 2 and daniel 7 is the roman empire but all bible teachers do not teach that especially in this generation old liberal theologians that arose in germany and then america they began to teach that this was grace and not rome and they taught many other things but there's another group that has arisen since the year 2000 and a teaching that has become very popular that says that rome is not the fourth kingdom of daniel 2 or daniel 7. what is it they're born again christians who love jesus but they believe something different than what i'm teaching you here who are they they are those that believe that the antichrist is going to be a muslim and they teach that this iron kingdom the fourth kingdom that's gonna arise in the last days is gonna be worldwide islam you may or may not have heard this but there's a lot of popular teachers since the year 2000 and begin to teach it strongly joel richardson chuck missler perry stone volod shubat and john mcarthur have all got caught up in this they didn't used to believe this but they've got drawn in in this teaching that antichrist is going to be a muslim that the last world religion is going to be islam spread across the world they actually point out that rome is never mentioned in connection with this fourth beast specifically they also point out that this fourth roman beast never conquered the middle persian or babylonian empires that's what they they actually said that rome didn't absolutely conquer all the nations that the three previous empires um i ruled over and so they say it can't be room how do they say this fourth beast was in the past some of them say it was the parthian empire that arose after the middle persian empire they say that it was the islamic caliphate that arose in the year 6 32. listen carefully but that was 700 years after rome conquered grace they say that this islamic caliphate was in place all the way through to the ottoman empire that arose in the 14th century which fell in 1923 but they teach that this islamic state or political system is going to revive again in the future and it's going to be made up of 10 distinct muslim nations that it's going to be restricted to the middle east and that it is going to be the world power in which antichrist arises do i believe this no i utterly reject it and hear me and i'm going to prove it briefly here i wish i had an hour on this but we don't let me just mention why i do not believe the antichrist is going to be islamic or a muslim you see this teaching and i've read their books and listened their sermons they confuse beasts with heads with horns and that's what we're dealing with here this is why i'm spending time on it they get all confused and make an empire sometimes a beast sometimes ahead and sometimes horns they're very very confused when they come to it and so they teach that babylon the first empire of daniel 2 and 7 is also one of the seven heads of the beast in the book of revelation they also teach that the grecian empire the third beast of daniel is also the fifth head of the fourth beast of revelation so they begin to confuse all of this and if you're not confused yet i assure you if you study this you will get confused and i'll have an awful lot of questions for you they get all confused and when they come to revelation 17 they say that the scarlet beast is the political system of islam the woman riding it is the religion of islam and the antichrist is the muslim messiah the only problem is in revelation 17 the ten horns which are meant to be ten muslim nations destroy the woman on the back of the beast it's utter confusion when you come to the islamic antichrist i want to tell you tonight be very careful of following the latest trend of bible prophecy since 2000 this has become popular many great bible teachers have followed it but i want to tell you without reservation it is utterly wrong it is filled with holes and it is filled with confusion these bible teachers may sound like they know what they're taught about but they actually do not before we come to our message let me just prove briefly the room replaced greece or the grecian empire do you remember i said that the grecian empire was split into four different regions well as rome began to arise as an empire it conquered each of those four individual regions over a period of 150 years no other kingdom did and this is several hundred years before islam is even birthed how could it possibly be islam this beast is the roman empire it was in the year 168 that rome conquered grace and macedonia the year 168 then the second region which covered all of turkey it conquered in the year 133 bc the third region was conquered in the year 63 bc and the fourth and final region of the grecian empire was conquered by augustus which was egypt in the year 30 bc so we see that the roman empire as it began to arise it conquered all four regions of alexander's empire rome replaced the grecian empire and had become the fourth beast of daniel 2 and of daniel chapter 7. it cannot be islam it cannot be something that came 700 years later and all i'm doing is touching on it very briefly there let me go to my message here tonight the rise and the fall of the little horn and i've got four points for you here the first point the future history of the roman beast last week we looked at its past history this fourth roman beast but i want to take you further here to tell you or to show you that it has a future you may think the roman empire was all in the past that it's dead and gone that it's in history that it's buried for good but i want to tell you this prophecy says not only that it did exist but it's going to exist again look with me as we look at the past and the future history of the roman empire look at verse seven it says after this i saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth it devoured and a break in pieces and it stamped the residue with the feet of it and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns this is the roman empire that began with augustus do you know that augustus was called the father of western civilization in other words the first roman emperor who made rome an empire the first great emperor of roman history the history books say he was one of the greatest leaders in all the world history yet most of us don't know who he is he is also the father of western civilization still today our entire western civilization look back to augustus as the first emperor as the father of our entire civilization though the roman empire is in the past yet it is still affecting our culture and our time this iron empire is an extraordinary empire since i want to tell you the bible prophesied very accurately about the roman empire daniel prophesied when rome was nothing in this prophecy in daniel 7 three times in the very same word this empire is described in detail four times it is called the fourth beast in other words it comes after the previous three exact details are given about it three times we're told it's going to be diverse or very different than the other beasts twice we're told that its teeth were made of iron twice we're told about the feed of the beast that it's gonna stamp the residue or those bits of the kingdom before it it's gonna stamp it underfoot and three times we're told about it the head of the beast and the ten kings that are gonna rise upon it iron is the great mark of this kingdom of the roman beast it says again in chapter 7 and verse 19 and this is daniel speaking to the angel as he saw the vision of this great beast then i would know the truth of the fourth beast notice he used more interest in the fourth than the previous three which was diverse from all the others exceeding dreadful whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass which divide and break in pieces and stamped the residue with his feet do you know what it says here about this taste it's going to stamp underfoot the residue of the previous grecian empire those four regions it's going to stamp them down that's what it says here the remainder the remnant of the previous kingdom room is going to arise and stamp it underfoot do you remember in daniel chapter 2 again it speaks about the same base the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things and as aaron breaketh all of these shall it break in pieces and bruise that's what this fourth empire is gonna do and he said thus he said the fourth beast should be the fourth kingdom upon the earth which shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces in daniel chapter 2 after we have the prophecy of this fourth kingdom do you know what happens god sets up his kingdom on the earth in its very last days in daniel chapter 7 when we see this fourth beast and the fullness of its history at the end of its history what do we see god coming to set his kingdom up on the earth in other words we see the roman empire again in the last days in the last generation before jesus comes back again it is an iron based and the iron beast of daniel 2 and daniel 7 appears again in the new testament in revelation chapter 13 and revelation chapter 17 it is the exact same beast in these four chapters why do you think the bible says so much about this fourth beast are this roman based in revelation chapter 17 and 18 listen to what it says identifying the beast the woman on its back and the city it represents revelation 17 and 18 and the woman which thou sauced is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth which city was reigning over the kings of the earth when john wrote this you see in revelation 17 the angel is speaking to john the apostle in the new testament he's looking at the beast with the woman sitting on it he's seeing this vision and he said what am i looking at and the angel says you're looking at that city that's reigning over all the kings of the earth which city was reigning over the kings of the earth and john's day it was the city of rome and revelation 17 it's not about new york it's not about mecca it's not about any other city in the world and it's certainly not about dublin i want to tell you here you see many teach that revelation 17 and 18 is about mecca and they say that the seven hills or seven towers are buildings in this center of mecca that's ridiculous i'm going to tell you that tonight others say it's the city of new york but no it's not john is given the revelation in john 17 of what city it is it is the city of rome that's what that fourth beast is the beast that daniel predicted that john prophesies about is connected to the city of rome listen for a second and you'll understand where i'm going to an ancient roman historian living a hundred years before christ called varo said that the city of rome had two original names before it was called rome listen to what they were the first name in the latin is septi monetum which means seven mountains the other name of it is septi seps which means seven heads so here's varro an old roman historian 1100 years before john and he says the original name of the city of rome was seven mountains and seven heads that was the original name of the city of rome when it was just had seven villages on seven different hills on a fence and around it they were called the seven heads or the seven mountains that is the latin name of that city when you come to revelation 17 this begins to make real sense listen to me carefully in revelation 17 and verse 7 it says about this scarlet beast which have seven heads and ten horns now notice here that this beast in revelation 17 we're told that it has seven heads in verse nine we're told what this seven heads represent it's in a vision it's got seven heads upon it do you remember like the greek empire when the grecian empire arose it had four heads on it what did it represent it represented one empire but it was going to be split into four and those four were four different types of head of government of authority the grecian empire would split in four and those four heads would be one empire they would speak the same language they would have the same culture they would trace their their origin back to alexander the great but they're one empire but they've got four heads and the grecian empire the leopard had four heads representing four different regional heads or governments do you know when you come to revelation 17 and you see the scarlet beast and it's got seven heads upon it you know what it means it actually means there's seven forms of government connected to the roman empire listen carefully for a second i'm gonna show you how can you have the roman empire of daniel that daniel prophesied about how can you have it in the days in those early days and yet we're going to see it again in the last days how can you have it when it doesn't exist today is this wrong teaching or am i telling you something the bible predicts and prophesies about that the roman empire is going to exist after the grecian empire and during the early church and through john wright in the book of revelation but somewhere it's going to disappear but it's going to come back does the bible teach that this scarlet beast with seven heads is going to disappear for a significant time yes it does but you don't find the answer in daniel you find the answer in the book of revelation it makes you to understand how can this scarlet beast be there in the days after grace but yet it's still future to us and it's going to appear again the seven heads show us what is going to happen now listen most bible teachers will tell you that the seven heads are seven empires how can it be how can the beast be an empire the roman empire and yet its heads are empires it doesn't make sense heads are not empires they're forms of government within that empire these seven heads represents kinds of government within the roman empire most bible teachers will say it's babylon medu persia greece rome egypt and assyria that that's the seven heads i do not believe that and listen revelation 17 listen to what it says the seven heads or seven mountains so that's the first thing in revelation 17 what are the seven heads they are seven mountains upon which the women woman sits that is the literal city of rome now listen there's two parts to this and it keeps it centered in the city of rome first of all the seven heads are connected to the seven mountains they represent the seven physical mountains of the city of rome but listen it goes further verse 10 and there are seven kings so you see that the seven heads represent two things seven physical mountains in the city of rome but also seven kings are seven forms of government he goes on to explain further and he tells you what happens with these seven heads the history is given in revelation 17 from the beginning of the history of the roman empire right through its very end we are given seven forms of government the full history of the roman empire and revelation 17 explains the first five were fallen when john began to write he said the five were fallen the word fallen means to descend from a high position to be cast on or to fall under judgment or to lose their authority and be removed from power if the head represents a form of government like it does with the grecian empire it means that rome before augustus arose there were five forms of government then it says in john 17 in the days of john there is a sixth head and it was present in john's day five have come and gone they have fallen they have lost their power but there's one in john's day what is it imperial room that's what was there it's one of the forms of government it began with augustus and went to the end of the fall of the roman empire in the fifth century it was imperial room was a was the sixth head of that scarlet beast and it remained there but it's gone so we see that six of the heads have already gone but look what john prophesies and the other is yet to come so he prophesies there's going to be a seventh form of government different separated from imperial rome since i want to tell you that imperial rome is finished it has come and gone it is absolutely gone but there is a seventh form of government that is yet to come it is called the seventh head of the scarlet beast it is a form of government a new form of government you see i believe the seventh head is just future and it's about to come about and i want to tell you from daniel i want to show you now take you back into daniel to daniel chapter 7 and i want to show you the sixth head of the roman beast you see that's not explained in daniel it's explained in revelation and here tonight haven't showed you the roman beast now let me come to my second point since i know it's a jigsaw but i'm trying to help you and to condense this down the second point here from daniel chapter 7 the rise of the ten horns you see this roman beast has three periods of history the scarlet beast the time when ten horns appear and then finally a third period when a little horn arises so we've seen the roman empire in past history with its six heads but there's one period of time that's still future that we're gonna look at here in daniel chapter 7 and please follow with me here tonight daniel 7 verse 7 and it says and it had 10 horns the scarlet beast that's going to follow the grecian empire this is a note in its history remember daniel 7 has given the history of the four empires it's given their broad history throughout time this fourth beast is going to come to a time like with the grecian empire when it's split into four there's going to be a time where this roman beast is going to rise and it's going to have 10 horns what are the 10 horns they are 10 kings it's still a fourth beast but it's it's later history it's not a different kingdom it is the exact same kingdom it is still connected to the city of rome it this sixth head that's gonna come or sorry this seventh head that's gonna come is connected to the seven hills of rome and we get more information about it in revelation chapter 13 but here in daniel 7 24 look what it says and three times we're given this history about the rise of ten horns since i wanted you to notice this because it's just about to happen i believe it's at the door i believe what started to happen last year and it's happening this year is setting the field since it wouldn't surprise me if very soon we see this come about i don't know when but i believe the decade of the 20s is going to put this political system in place i believe we're gonna see the revival of the roman empire again i believe we're gonna see the seventh head or the ten horns come up on this beast one more time look at verse 24 the ten horns of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise it's taunt about the history of this space that it's still in the future it hasn't happened yet this beast does not always have ten horns but it shall have ten horns 10 horns are going to arise at a certain point in its history but they're only going to be there for a short time a very brief time 10 kings are going to come up that's never happened in history past never did that happen in the roman empire that 10 kings come up and ruled over it jointly it's never happened but daniel prophesies it and revelation prophesies that these ten kings when they appear to look up because the son of man is coming in other words in the days of those ten kings as it says in daniel 2 in the days of those 10 kings god is going to set up his kingdom on the earth do you see the importance of teaching this here tonight that we are going to watch the formation of the political system in our day and generation and you know what it's a warning that there's a kingdom coming from on high don't get scared don't get confused don't get worried at what's happening across our world in europe and in america and out across the nations of the world you know what it's telling me something is just about to happen this is an exciting time you know there were those that were living in 1948 when israel was rebirthed as a nation i mean they watched it on television they read about it in their bible and said maybe it's in the future maybe it's in the millennium maybe it'll be when jesus comes back and they try to spiritualize it and put it off into the future and yet in 1948 all the world watched as israel got re-gathered rebirthed as a nation in one day in one single day israel that ancient nation that had been scattered across the world was rebirthed as a nation again you know what's going to happen i believe the roman empire is about to be rebirthed just like israel as a nation and i believe we're very very close in this hour a political system is about to come very very soon and it shall arise in the earth do you remember in daniel chapter 2 where we already covered the legs were all of iron that is the roman empire in past history the legs of iron are room in the past but what do you get at the end of the legs in daniel chapter 2 listen the legs were of iron but his feet were part of iron and part of clay and they shall mingle themselves with the seed of man notice here that the seed of men is mentioned specifically in relation to the clay in other words the clay the feet are not actually all iron anymore it's not the roman empire in past history it is the roman empire when jesus comes to set up his kingdom upon the earth what does it look like the ten twos are the ten kings and they're not iron anymore they're a mixture of iron and clay and what it is is that the seed of men is the clay that mixes with the iron the form of government do you know what clay represents the clay is potter's clay or it means it's fired do you know when you take clay before you fire it it's all putty it's all putty you squeeze it it doesn't look like much but when you fire that clay it looks very strong it looks very solid but it's not strong it's very weak you can break a clay instrument very very easily you know the tin tubes they're made of iron and clay and they try to mingle it and yet it doesn't work do you know in daniel 2 it's talking about two different forms of government an iron government and the clay government clay is of the earth clay represents man so here you have a form of government that's soon gonna arise when the roman empire revives you're gonna have ten kings and the form of government it's gonna be a mixture of two different kinds of government that they're going to try to tie together they're going to try and merge it together one is of man and one is of iron that's what it actually represents since i'm telling you about the last days that we are approaching very fast over in revelation chapter 13 we read more details about this beast and its ten kings in revelation thirteen and one it says we we are told that the vision that john had he saw a beast rise up out of the sea with seven heads and ten horns this is the beast the last world government that's going to arise before jesus comes back and he has a vision in revelation 13. look at it again seven heads ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns do you realize in revelation 13 when it says the ten horns have crowns that means when they receive power revelation 13 is a prophecy about when these ten kings get their power it's talking about a prophecy that hasn't happened yet it's still future it is yet to happen ten world leaders and the old roman empire's gonna revive do you know what the ten kings are they are the seventh head they are the seventh head hear me the sixth head was imperial room but when rome revives and comes back again it was but it's not but it's going to come again that's what we read in revelation how can you have a beast an empire that has come and gone but it's going to rise again here you have the prophecy ten kings are going to arise not nations everyone teaches ten nations it's not ten nations it's not the eu it's not ten european nations not at all it's not countries it's ten kings and these ten kings are going to have a form of government of clay and avarn they are the seventh head of the roman beast now listen carefully here in revelation 13 we get very clear information it says in verse 3 i saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death and this deadly wound was healed look what it's saying about one of the heads which head of this beast was wounded to death remember i said the first five fell it's a different greek word that's used they fell they were removed they were replaced but one of the heads was wounded to death do you know that greek word means it was butchered it was killed that's what it means so five forms of government were removed one of them was killed which form of roman government was killed it was imperial room was butchered to death by barbarian tribes that broke in upon the city of rome and upon the nation of italy and they destroyed the roman empire they butchered it to death they killed imperial rome in the fifth century was the last official roman empire he died never to be raised again since the roman empire died as soon as imperial rome died it died but you know what revelation 13 says that there's going to be a head the head of it's going to be healed again it's going to be restored what is the restoration it is ten kings a form of government is going to arise on the roman beast this great roman political economic social beast is going to rise since it is coming it is even at the door last year and this year i believe the whole climate has been created in our world every nation has been affected i can't believe what we've seen in just one year in one single year our world has changed and it's being made ready for the rise the reviving the restoration of this space and i'm prophesying on the basis of god's word that we're about to see 10 world leaders arise i don't know when i don't know when but this is what's going to happen in the 2020s i'm utterly convinced of it and you know what if we see the rise of 10 world leaders we know we know it's the end and god's kingdom is going to come to reign upon the earth daniel repeats three times about ten horns on that beast he get he becomes very aware that this is the future history of this fourth beast my third point here the rise of the little horn daniel focuses in not only on the ten horns but another horn that rises in their midst it's called the little horn and daniel focuses in upon it it arises among the 10 after the 10 and it replaces the 10. look in daniel 7 verse 6. he said i considered the horns in other words he's looking he's studying he is watching them as this unveils in front of him he considers the ten horns and behold there came up among them another little horn notice this isn't a generation afterwards this little horn comes up amidst the ten the ten have to be in place before the little horn arises there's going to be no antichrist on the earth until there's ten world leaders you have lots of people they forget about the ten horns they forget about the revived roman empire lots of people think we won't be here for it i want to assure you tomorrow we could begin to see the rise of this roman revived beast with its ten world leaders the bible prophesies an antichrist will not be revealed cannot be revealed until these ten kings are in place once the ten kings are in place the whole scene is set for the rise the revealing and the manifestation of another little horn just think two thousand six hundred years ago daniel gets a revelation a vision a clear prophecy about what's just about to happen in our world in this generation he actually gets to look down through and to see the complete history the order of it the events the facts and the details isn't this extraordinary how accurate just like he was accurate about babylon and about me to persia ah and about grace so he is accurate about the roman empire and not just the roman empire of past history the roman empire of the future this same base this same civilization this same culture is going to come back but it's going to have a different form of government than imperial rome since look at this little horn here for a minute that daniel begins to speak about his tongue he calls him a little horn another horn another king but it's a little horn you know everyone who tells you they know who the antichrist is don't believe them they always choose one of the prominent leaders it's obama or or it's schwab or it's someone else or it's the greek prime minister you know what all of them are wrong this little horn is an insignificant horn when you see him arise there is great world leaders he is insignificant he is a nobody he has no power he is unnoticed he just begins to rise up and he's called a little horn a little king a little prime minister a little president you wouldn't even acknowledge him you wouldn't think anything about him when we first see the little horn and remember daniel talks much about this little horn he is a small player he is utterly unknown you would never choose him to be the antichrist your your bet would never fall in him while you're looking at the ten big leaders he silently secretly quietly arises but notice how he gains power he comes up in the midst of the ten kings and daniel says in verse 8 before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots do you know how he gains power he plucks three of the kings up by the roots in other words those ten kings to gain power to gain the entire kingdom since i want to warn you that everything that they're trying to build today a one world economic system a tracking system putting your mobile in your body all of this controlled society a cashless society it is all being prepared for a little horn who's going to hijack it it won't be the big bankers it won't be the big political leaders it won't be the big businessman do you realize that when they gain power and have their world government that is not the end a little insignificant horn is going to arise and he's going to steal the power he's going to steal the position how does he do it he removes three of these leaders i believe the entire world is going to be split into 10 regions europe is just one of them europe's one of those regions america will be another region it won't be a nation it'll be a region and this little horn may be a king of a small nation we're going to see it very shortly in daniel's prophecy he tells us where his nationality is or where he arises and it's not in america and it's not in europe daniel prophesies it the exact details as this little horn arises to gain power he uproots three of these kings these three leaders he totally removes them from power they lose all power and you never read of the other seven again it also says behold in the horn where eyes and the eyes of man he had intelligence eyes mean intelligence and a mouth speaking great things three times we read in daniel 7 how he's gonna subdue three of them listen to me three times it says the little horn will subdue three of these kings that's major since this is all about to come we are about to see the reviving of the roman empire ten great world leaders over it when it appears there'll be ten leaders and a little horn an insignificant national leader is going to uproot three of those kings and take over the entire kingdom and it says and another shall arise after them he shall be diverse from them and he shall subdue three kings daniel 7 verse 20 and of the 10 horns that were in his head and of the other which came up before whom three were do you know what else it says in daniel 7 how this little horn will be noted or what is going to happen in the future it says in verse 21 that the little horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them god won't deliver them see in that r when the little horn arises one of the major things he's going to do is make war on the saints what is that word saints mean it means holy ones those who are consecrated to god those set apart for god this little political leader that's gonna take over the world government that's gonna have economic religious military power greater than any country or nation greater than all the greatest leaders of world history this little horn is going to make war against the saints and he's going to prevail you know god allows him to do it god actually allows him to do it and he speaks very proud things we're told as well he wears down the saints he makes them weary look in verse 25 with me what it says and it says that he thinks to change times and laws this gives the future history of what's about to happen in our world that the end of human history the end of world government the end of man's government in our world this is the last chapter that god is telling us about he says that this little horn once he gains power and begins to persecute the saints do you know what he tries to do he's going to change the times and the laws that turn times means to put kings in place and remove kings in other words he's going to gain political power to change laws means he's going to change the legislation of the world he's going to bring in world law in other words he's going to start appointing people and say you have power and you have no power and this is the law that we all live by he's going to rule governmental power and legislation and he's going to replace the laws of god and the laws of man with his own legislation look as well in the same verse it says it gives us the time frame and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and dividing of times time is one year times is double it's two years and the dividing of time is half a year in other words three and a half years the saints are going to be given into the little horns hands for three and a half years this is repeated in daniel chapter 12 verse 7. but look what it says in verse 26 but aren't you glad for the butts see saints i want you to see here that all the world governments of history nebuchadnezzar cyrus alexander augustus and then the little horn is all to prepare our world throughout world history for a another person who's going to take up dominion another world leader and a different government of a very different type let me finish my message here the fourth and last point in daniel chapter seven and listen to what it is a future kingdom coming from heaven we've seen all these great kingdoms through history and something just about to happen in our world don't you realize this is to prepare all of humanity and our world for another kingdom not of this earth do you know within man is the desire for government i know we're rebellious especially the irish i know we are but you know our world cries out for a pure government to be ruled over to have authority for someone that will govern the nations and bring in world peace and bring an end to famine and sort out all of our problems is it not within the culture of man oh that we could have a government and a leader that would end war oh the way of a a leader that would bring in peace and prosperity that would be to the blessing of us all don't you realize the desire of all nations is for such a king for a monarchy and yet we've never seen a good one never throughout human history every king has failed every president every prime minister they never come up to our expectations and yet our world is crown out give us a leader give us world peace end all the promises all the problems of our world the fourth thing here we see is the future kingdom coming from heaven it actually says in in verse 9 i beheld this is daniel speaking till the thrones were cast on he saw the previous four beasts and all of their history and he kept watching them straight to the end the little horn making war on the saints and as he saw that till thrones were cast on and the ancient of days did said since i want to tell you tonight look at the comparison here the kingdoms of this world compared with the kingdom coming from heaven there is a kingdom coming and verse 90 says and the ancient of days did set there's a certain person having seen the little horn on earth persecuting god's people he then looks up to see a kingdom coming from heaven and there is one called the ancient of days who did sit upon a throne and his garment was as wide as snow his hair of his head was like pure will he had the mark of purity of age of ancientness what is his name the ancient of days and he's sitting on a throne and the throne was like fiery flame with wheels burning it's like a chariot that's what it is it's a throne that's like a chariot and it's burning with great fire and fire streams forth from that throne since i'm telling you what is not far down the road i'm telling you of a kingdom that's going to come from heaven and the ancient of days is going to be seated on his throne who is this ancient of days let's just take a good note here who is he he's the one who's setting judgment who begins to open up the books in verse 11 it says and i beheld because of the great words which the horn spake i beheld till the beast was slain and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame not talking about the little horn taunt about the beast the final roman based or world civilization government the ancient of days sets and it's time to destroy the final world government he's going to annihilate it he is going to utterly destroy it he's going to remove it from the earth it says in verse 13 and i saw in the night visions and behold one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven and to the ancient of days look at the two persons you've got two people judgment is being set it is the end of earth's government it is the end of the three and a half years of the little horns reign and you know what happens one like the son of man approaches onto one called the ancient of days the ancient of days is on his throne and the son of man comes on the clouds of heaven he draws near to the ancient of days since i'm telling you of a kingdom that's prepared to come it's from heaven who is the son of man do you know the name son of man is a term used for jesus christ in the gospel of matthew it's used 32 times son of man in other words jesus in the gospel of matthew he looks back into daniel and he says i'm the son of man i am the son of man in fact in matthew 24 talking about the end of the great tribulation he says you will see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven who is that it is the lord jesus christ jesus is coming back to establish an everlasting kingdom do you know in matthew it also says in chapter 26 when he's standing before the high priest the religious system in israel and they say uh are are you the messiah are you the christ do you know what he tells them he says you said it you said it but listen to what he said he said hereafter shall ye see the son of man sitting at the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven and you know what the crowd blasphemy because jesus was claiming that he was the son of man and now a day is coming where he's going to come on the clouds since jesus isn't coming until man has done his ultimate he'll never set up his kingdom on the earth i know we're tired of this world i know we're weary of what man is doing i i know we're sick of politics and we see rising evil but i want to tell you there's a day coming when jesus is coming again he's going to receive a kingdom from nation of days who's the ancient of days it is the father in heaven the father in heaven commissions the son of man to come in the clouds of heaven i am telling you about a kingdom that's going to be set up in the days of the ten twos of the ten horns of the little horn i'm telling you of a kingdom that's going to come from heaven and it will be an everlasting kingdom nobody will defeat this kingdom it is an eternal kingdom an everlasting kingdom and it says in verse 14 there was given him dominion glory a kingdom that all people nations languages should serve him and the dominion everlasting dominion which shall not pass away his kingdom shall not be destroyed all of this was given to jesus christ in the book of revelation it says in chapter 11 and this is the seventh angel in revelation when he blows the trumpet it says the kingdoms of this world are going to become the kingdoms of of of our lord and of his christ do you realize ireland is going to become jesus do you realize america is going to be taken over by king jesus do you realize germany do you realize england do you realize there's one coming who's going to be given all of the nations of the world and all languages are going to serve him all nations all cultures are going to become his the ancient of days the father is going to give to the son of man he is coming as a man he is coming as one who took on humanity and you know what all nations are going to worship him all power is going to be given unto him and listen he's not gonna reign alone daniel prophesied this two thousand six hundred years ago he looked down through the corridors of time past nebuchadnezzar and babylonia down to the days of balthazar cyrus and the medo-persian empire alexander and the grecian empire augustus and the roman empire then further down into the future which is future now to the little horn the ten horns rising the revival of the roman empire but he looks way beyond that since i'm telling you a contrast this is why i study the little horn and the antichrist you know why i'm going to see the glory come lord jesus maranatha maranatha i'm looking for an everlasting kingdom i'm looking for a king oh i want him to rule over the earth men i will come and go rulers will come and go but since i'm telling you the nations of this world are gonna belong to jesus christ and in verse 18 he goes further but the saints of the most high shall take the kingdom notice they don't take the kingdom until jesus comes back we're not going to take the kingdom and present a term we don't believe in kingdom now dominion theology you know what when jesus comes back it's gonna seem like man is ruling israel is about to be defeated all believers in jesus christ are about to be annihilated but at that point at that very point when jesus comes in the clouds of the air when he comes in all power and majesty when judgment is said do you know what's going to happen verse 18 the saints of the most high shall take the kingdom or be given the kingdom and they'll possess the kingdom forever not you and i saints i'm telling you there's a kingdom come into this world the ancient of days is gonna set up his kingdom through the lord jesus christ and daniel two thousand six hundred years ago his beholding this in a vision in the night in daniel chapter seven in the first year of bel chazar here he is he wakes up he has a dream and then a vision and he's looking at all the world history right down to the end when the son of man is gonna come on the clouds don't you long for that hour saints aren't you looking up in this hour don't get discouraged by what man is gonna do and it says finally in daniel chapter 7 verse 28 hitherto is the end of the matter as for me daniel my cognition or my understanding was much troubled and my countenance changed within me i think he went as wide as a ghost but i kept the matter in my heart who would you 2600 years ago who would you share this with he kept it in his heart he wrote it in a book his complexion changed you know what he was deeply disturbed by what he's seen but as he saw the little horn through his worst he saw the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven and he's seen the saints of every generation on of every country and of every language possessing the kingdom do you realize there's an hour where we're gonna reign and rule with jesus christ and it's here in daniel's prophecy do you realize there's an hour where man's kingdom and man's dominion a man's government comes to an end and it's going to end forever since as we end this bible study we are preparing over the next weeks to look at the last days of world history the last teaching of the lord in specific detail about what's going to happen in our world we have a remarkable book that gives us the details the accurate details of everything that is going to happen no other book in the world is a prophecy book like this and you know what this book says you must be born again you must be right with jesus christ you must be washed in the blood of jesus christ are you ready to meet jesus christ are your sins washed away in the blood of jesus you see the spirit of prophecy is the revelation of christ christ is coming again this christ who died for sinners is going to come in the clouds of the earth and what a terrible day for sinners what a terrible day of judgment for the nations of the world for the great leaders of the world when christ comes and all of his fury let's pray together as we close this bible study here tonight the contrast of the little horn and the son of man the contrast of the kingdoms of this world and the kingdom of heaven candace is going to come and just lead us in praise here and worship as we adore the lord jesus christ we're going to sing together as we close let thy kingdom come amen

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