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.