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).