Thirteen-nation membership of the EU
THIS GUY is a follower of Jack Van Impe's - as you will see below.
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/bblovrvw/C_11a.html
the “little horn”
The “little horn,” of Daniel’s dream, I believe, is a man, alive
today, who will arise out of the EU empire. At first, he probably
will not be well-known (thus the adjective, “little”). But, with
time, he will become famous (or, rather, infamous) and extremely
powerful. At some point, he apparently will “uproot” or “subdue” the
leaders of three other kingdoms within the EU.
Thus, Daniel’s statement that “...three of the first horns were
uprooted...” (Dan. 7:8b) would mean that three of the original
thirteen leaders (or nations) would be taken out, leaving ten, which
Daniel saw as the ten in his dream. It is not certain at what point
this leader will “subdue” the leaders of three other nations; but I
suspect it will occur after he rises to power, which will be during
the first 3½ years following the ratification of the seven-year
covenant involving Israel. (If this is so, I would predict that the
three to be subdued will be Ireland, Denmark, and Germany. Ireland
and Denmark were not part of the old Roman Empire, and only a very
small portion of Germany was included in it boundaries. Of course,
this is only personal conjecture.)
Also, after Daniel mentioned the ten horns (Dan. 7:7e), he said that
“...there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up
among them” (7:8a). Dr. Jack Van Impe, on his TV show, “Jack Van Impe
Presents,” aired on TBN, has pointed out that Spain was the eleventh
nation to join the EU and, therefore, that the “little horn” possibly
could arise from Spain. (As an aside, and possibly of some
significance, is the fact that the first Israeli-Palestinian peace
talks took place in Spain in October, 1991; Spain was the location of
the World Expo and the Summer Olympics in 1992; and the 500th
anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ voyage from Spain to America was
celebrated in October, 1992. Of course, this focus on Spain may be
nothing more than an interesting set of coincidences.)
Another possibility, concerning the horns in Daniel’s dream, is that
the thirteen-nation membership of the EU somehow will be modified to
ten, in a way yet unknown, before three are subdued. In this case,
the “little horn” will overcome or remove three of ten leaders (or
nations), leaving seven. At this point, however, I tend to believe
that the latter will not be the sequence of events.