Ooh, those are some interesting words in that last paragraph! One can wonder what Scripture says of this beast and antiChrist power, and how history matches too perfectly!

Attributes of the little horn power:

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 brake in pieces, and 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. 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. Daniel 7:7-8

The little horn power arose out of the fourth beast, and arose among the ten horns! Was this not the fourth beast as described in Daniel Chapter 2, in the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream? What else did this dream speak of? Interesting!

Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. Daniel 7:23-24

But even among the ten horns, this power arose after them; after the fourth beast, among them it appeared, after them it rose, but a different power from the rest. Shall devour the whole earth? So this must be a universal dominion with a religio-political power to be different from the rest. Who was the fourth beast? Wouldn't the time period here be after 476 A.D.? What system has universal dominion?

And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. Daniel 7:20

Ooh, it's more powerful than the others, and as a consequence of its growth, three opposing powers are gotten rid of. What historically is divided into ten? In that history, don't three nations fall after? And after the fall of those three nations, does not one rise into power with authority over the rest? Who were the alamanni, the burgundian, the franks, the lombards, the saxons, the suevi, the visigoths, the heruli, the vandals, and the ostrogoths? Was this a splitting up of power from the fourth beast? What happened to the heruli, the vandals, and the ostrogoths? In Whom did these three nations carry the faith of?

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Daniel 7:25

In addition, this little horn power has eyes like a man, speaks against the most high, wears out the saints, and thinks to change times and laws. So this power exalts itself as man, blasphemes, is a persecuting power, and affronts God by not only changing the Moral Laws, but the view of time itself.

Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. Daniel 7:22

Wow, a universal religio-political power, prescribed to the whole world, existing after 476 A.D., existing still today, and existing until the time of retribution when this power will be eliminated.

Don't forget the time prophecy from Verse 25! A time, times, and half a time? Is this repeated in Revelation? Is this associated with the seemingly mortal wound? Is it not necessary to study Daniel in order to understand Revelation?

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. Revelation 13:3-5

There's that three and a half years again! That pesky seemingly mortal wound, but after its healing the world wondered? And its power given by dragon worship? Who is the dragon? What is dragon worship? In what system did it originate in? In what system is it in today? Which universal religio-politcal power, in its signs and symbols, partakes in this worship for all the world to wonder at?

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Revelation 13:7

After the healing, this little horn persecuting power became universal and had dominion over the world? What universal calendar is used today? What universal system of time? What universal set of moral laws? What power institutes all these things? Under what seat is this power controlled? What is the only system to fit not some, but all of the criteria?

After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. Numbers 14:34

Hmm, so each prophetic day is one literal year, three and a half years are forty two months, that gives 1260 years! Were the ten kingdoms, the ten horns, established in 476 A.D.? What was the decree signed by Emperor Justinian? What supremacy was legally recognized? When was this signed? Was it in 538 A.D.? What happened during these 1260 years? What happened at the end of these 1260 years in 1798? What happened in France in 1798? What were the consequences? Where the two "opposing" powers truly opposed to each other? Who did France recognize in 1798? What does Scripture say about the false prophet and the image of the beast? Who or what is the image of the beast?

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-10