Burgundians, Vandals and Ostrogoths. - WAYNE

Here Wayne brings up:

(Dan 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.

What I find interesting is that he is behind the REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE

- but differs from Jack Van Impe - as he sees the three Kings as the

Burgundians, Vandals and Ostrogoths.

The Arian Kingdoms: the Burgundians, Vandals, and Ostrogoths

Arius' teachings greatly influenced the three Germanic "Arian

Kingdoms" - the Burgundians, the Vandals (the modern term vandalism is

derived from their practice of completely devastating enemy areas that

they defeated, including when they sacked Rome) and Ostrogoths - often

hostile and competing, but eventually allied for a time kingdoms

within the territory of the Roman empire (the Burgundians in what is

today southern France, the Vandals in north Africa and the Ostrogoths

in what is today Ukraine, near the Black Sea). During that same era,

the successive bishops of Rome, as set up by the emperors of Rome (i.e

the Emperor chose the bishop from his own city, a natural and

practical political choice), were given the religious leadership over

the entire area of the empire under the Roman emperor's control,

including over their previously equal-with-him fellow bishops (by the

very definition, bishop meant a local or regional leader - never a

supreme leader), thereby becoming the sole Pope (all of the bishops

were addressed as Pope before then).

The Arian Kingdoms were regarded as a serious threat to the leadership

of the bishops of Rome, since they were religious adherents of Arius

who would take religious control wherever they took political control

(which is also what the Emperors and Popes have always done), so with

the political and military power of the Roman emperors backing them,

the Popes (the other "horn" that came up among them and "spoke great

things" in Daniel 7:8) had the Burgundian, Vandal and the Ostrogoth

kingdoms destroyed - the "three of the first horns that were plucked

up by the roots" from the Roman empire (same verse). Thereafter the

Church/Bishop of Rome became the "woman" riding the "beast" of the

Roman empire (Revelation 17:3-18).