End Times ANTICHRIST Understand Daniel 2, 7 - Revelation 13 and 17
Daniel Chapter 2 King James Bible
verses 16 through 25:
16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.
17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.
25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
Background Studies:
https://www.thethirdheaventraveler.com/2025/01/let-us-examine-ourselves-gospel-kjv.html
https://www.thethirdheaventraveler.com/2025/08/end-time-timeline.html
Head of fine gold
Breast and arms of silver
Belly and thighs of brass (bronze)
Legs of iron
Feet partly of iron and partly of clayA stone "cut without hands" strikes the statue's feet, shattering the entire image to dust, which the wind carries away.
The stone then grows into a great mountain that fills the whole earth.Daniel interprets (vv. 36–45):Gold head = Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom)
Silver chest/arms = Inferior kingdom that follows (Medo-Persia)
Bronze belly/thighs = Third kingdom that rules over all the earth (Greece under Alexander)
Iron legs = Fourth kingdom, strong as iron, breaking all others (Rome)
Feet of iron mixed with clay = A final phase of the fourth kingdom—divided, partly strong and partly brittle; kingdoms try to mix ("mingle themselves with the seed of men") but do not fully unite
Stone cut without hands = God's kingdom, established by divine power (not human), which destroys all earthly kingdoms and endures forever (Christ's eternal reign)Connecting the Big Picture
Daniel 2 (Statue)
Daniel 7 (Beasts)
Revelation 13 & 17 (Final Beast)
Gold head
Lion with eagle's wings
(Incorporated into final beast)
Silver chest/arms
Bear raised on one side
(Incorporated into final beast)
Bronze belly/thighs
Leopard with four wings/four heads
Leopard body (dominant feature in Rev 13:2)
Iron legs
Dreadful fourth beast with iron teeth
Bear feet, lion mouth, but overall tied to iron (Roman roots)
Feet: iron + clay (divided, unstable mixture)
TEN TOES
Ten horns on fourth beast
Seven heads and ten horns (Rev 13:1; 17:3) – final confederacy of kings
These are the final kingdoms 10 kingdoms whereas 3 will stand against the Antichrist and be destroyed.
(Little horn in Dan 7 arises from ten horns)
Little horn (boastful, persecutes saints)
Beast/Antichrist with deadly wound healed, blasphemes, rules 42 months, mark 666
(Little horn in Dan 7 arises from ten horns)
Little horn (boastful, persecutes saints)
Beast/Antichrist with deadly wound healed, blasphemes, rules 42 months, mark 666
This is all about the False Prophet who promotes the AntiChrist during the 7 year Tribulation
Stone strikes feet → total destruction
Ancient of Days judges → Son of Man receives kingdom
Lamb defeats beast and ten kings (Rev 17:14; 19:19–20)
Stone strikes feet → total destruction
Ancient of Days judges → Son of Man receives kingdom
Lamb defeats beast and ten kings (Rev 17:14; 19:19–20)
This represents Jesus Christ and his second coming the battle of Armageddon Revelation 19
God's eternal kingdom fills earth
Everlasting dominion to saints
New heaven/earth; God's kingdom eternal
The Unified Big Picture Timeline
God's eternal kingdom fills earth
Everlasting dominion to saints
New heaven/earth; God's kingdom eternal
The Unified Big Picture Timeline
Successive World Empires
Babylon → Medo-Persia → Greece → Rome
(Historically fulfilled with stunning accuracy)
Final Form of the Fourth (Roman) Empire
The iron continues into the feet/toes (Daniel 2) and the ten-horned beast (Daniel 7). This represents a revived or extended phase of the Roman Empire in the end times—a loose confederacy of nations/kingdoms (partly strong, partly weak; unable to fully unite like iron doesn't mix with clay).
Rise of the Antichrist System
From this ten-kingdom stage arises the "little horn" (Daniel 7) = the beast of Revelation 13 & 17. Empowered by Satan (Rev 13:2)
Composite of previous empires (takes the worst traits of all)
Performs miracles, demands worship, persecutes believers
Supported temporarily by a false religious system ("Babylon the Great" riding the beast – Rev 17)
Ten kings give him power for a short time ("one hour" – Rev 17:12)
Destruction and God's Kingdom
Just as the stone crushes the entire statue at its weakest point (the feet), Christ returns and utterly destroys the final beast system (Rev 19:20; Dan 7:11, 26). All human kingdoms are pulverized and blown away. God's kingdom—established supernaturally—fills the earth forever.
Second beast: "like to a bear... raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth" – told to "devour much flesh" (v. 5). Represents Medo-Persia (lopsided, with Persia dominant; conquering three kingdoms).
Third beast: "like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings... and four heads; and dominion was given to it" (v. 6). Represents Greece (swift conquest under Alexander; four heads for division after his death).
Fourth beast: "dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth... it devoured and brake in pieces... and it had ten horns" (v. 7). A little horn arises among the ten, uprooting three; it has "eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things" (v. 8), makes war on saints, speaks against God, changes times/laws for "a time and times and the dividing of time" (3.5 years) (vv. 20-25).
Beast from the earth: "two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon" (v. 11). Exercises sea-beast's authority, performs miracles (fire from heaven), deceives to worship sea-beast and its image, enforces mark (666) for buying/selling (vv. 12-17).Represents the False Prophet – religious enforcer supporting Antichrist.Revelation 17 (KJV) - The Scarlet Beast and the Woman A woman ("great whore... MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT") sits on a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns (vv. 3-5). Arrayed in purple/scarlet, gold, drunken with saints' blood (v. 4-6).Beast: Same as Rev 13 sea-beast (seven heads/ten horns).
Woman: Apostate religious system ("mother of harlots"), ruling kings, persecuted saints; ultimately judged/destroyed by beast's kings (God puts it in their hearts, v. 17). "That great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth" (v. 18).Connections Between Them
Rev 13 sea-beast combines features of all Daniel's beasts (leopard/bear/lion + ten horns/seven heads), empowered by dragon (Satan), with deadly wound healed – seen as end-times revival of Roman/antichrist empire.
Little horn (boastful, persecutes saints 3.5 times) parallels Antichrist's 42 months.
Rev 17 scarlet beast is explicitly the same entity (seven heads/ten horns), supporting false religion (woman/Babylon) temporarily before destroying it.
Overall: Daniel 7 prophesies successive empires culminating in a final oppressive kingdom with a blasphemous ruler; Revelation portrays its end-times manifestation, persecution of believers, false worship, and ultimate defeat by Christ (the "Son of man"/Lamb).
Babylon → Medo-Persia → Greece → Rome
(Historically fulfilled with stunning accuracy)
Final Form of the Fourth (Roman) Empire
The iron continues into the feet/toes (Daniel 2) and the ten-horned beast (Daniel 7). This represents a revived or extended phase of the Roman Empire in the end times—a loose confederacy of nations/kingdoms (partly strong, partly weak; unable to fully unite like iron doesn't mix with clay).
Rise of the Antichrist System
From this ten-kingdom stage arises the "little horn" (Daniel 7) = the beast of Revelation 13 & 17. Empowered by Satan (Rev 13:2)
Composite of previous empires (takes the worst traits of all)
Performs miracles, demands worship, persecutes believers
Supported temporarily by a false religious system ("Babylon the Great" riding the beast – Rev 17)
Ten kings give him power for a short time ("one hour" – Rev 17:12)
Destruction and God's Kingdom
Just as the stone crushes the entire statue at its weakest point (the feet), Christ returns and utterly destroys the final beast system (Rev 19:20; Dan 7:11, 26). All human kingdoms are pulverized and blown away. God's kingdom—established supernaturally—fills the earth forever.
'Core Message Daniel 2 gives the sweeping overview: Human history, with all its powerful empires, is temporary and fragile. No matter how impressive (gold) or brutal (iron), every kingdom will crumble when God's eternal kingdom arrives through the Messiah. Revelation fills in the dramatic final details of that climactic confrontation.This prophecy has encouraged believers for millennia: Earthly powers rise and fall, but the "stone cut without hands"—Jesus Christ and His kingdom—will ultimately prevail and reign forever.
Daniel 7 (KJV) - Vision of the Four Beasts
Daniel has a dream-vision of four great beasts rising from the sea (symbolizing chaotic nations/peoples stirred by God's winds):First beast: "like a lion, and had eagle's wings" – wings plucked, stood like a man, given a man's heart (v. 4). Represents Babylon (majestic but humbled, like Nebuchadnezzar).
Daniel 7 (KJV) - Vision of the Four Beasts
Daniel has a dream-vision of four great beasts rising from the sea (symbolizing chaotic nations/peoples stirred by God's winds):First beast: "like a lion, and had eagle's wings" – wings plucked, stood like a man, given a man's heart (v. 4). Represents Babylon (majestic but humbled, like Nebuchadnezzar).
Second beast: "like to a bear... raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth" – told to "devour much flesh" (v. 5). Represents Medo-Persia (lopsided, with Persia dominant; conquering three kingdoms).
Third beast: "like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings... and four heads; and dominion was given to it" (v. 6). Represents Greece (swift conquest under Alexander; four heads for division after his death).
Fourth beast: "dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth... it devoured and brake in pieces... and it had ten horns" (v. 7). A little horn arises among the ten, uprooting three; it has "eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things" (v. 8), makes war on saints, speaks against God, changes times/laws for "a time and times and the dividing of time" (3.5 years) (vv. 20-25).
Represents Rome (iron teeth link to Daniel 2); ten horns as future kings/kingdoms; little horn as a boastful end-times ruler (often seen as Antichrist figure).The vision shifts to heaven: "Ancient of days" judges, beasts' dominion ends, "one like the Son of man" receives everlasting kingdom (vv. 9-14). Saints inherit eternal kingdom (v. 27).Revelation 13 (KJV) - The Beast from the Sea and from the Earth Beast from the sea: Rises "having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy" (v. 1). Body "like unto a leopard... feet... of a bear... mouth... of a lion" (v. 2) – composite of Daniel's four beasts.
Dragon (Satan) gives it power. One head wounded to death but healed; world worships it, saying "Who is able to make war with him?" (vv. 3-4). Blasphemes God, wars on saints 42 months (v. 5-7). Number 666 (v. 18).Represents the Antichrist and his empire – a revived/final form of the fourth beast system.
Beast from the earth: "two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon" (v. 11). Exercises sea-beast's authority, performs miracles (fire from heaven), deceives to worship sea-beast and its image, enforces mark (666) for buying/selling (vv. 12-17).Represents the False Prophet – religious enforcer supporting Antichrist.Revelation 17 (KJV) - The Scarlet Beast and the Woman A woman ("great whore... MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT") sits on a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns (vv. 3-5). Arrayed in purple/scarlet, gold, drunken with saints' blood (v. 4-6).Beast: Same as Rev 13 sea-beast (seven heads/ten horns).
"Was, and is not, and yet is" (v. 8); goes to perdition. Seven heads = seven mountains/kings (five fallen, one is, one to come briefly; beast as eighth but "of the seven") (vv. 9-11). Ten horns = ten kings, no kingdom yet, give power to beast one hour, then hate/destroy woman (vv. 12-16).
Woman: Apostate religious system ("mother of harlots"), ruling kings, persecuted saints; ultimately judged/destroyed by beast's kings (God puts it in their hearts, v. 17). "That great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth" (v. 18).Connections Between Them
Revelation draws heavily from Daniel 7:The fourth beast (dreadful, iron teeth, ten horns, little horn) is the foundation for Revelation's beasts.
Rev 13 sea-beast combines features of all Daniel's beasts (leopard/bear/lion + ten horns/seven heads), empowered by dragon (Satan), with deadly wound healed – seen as end-times revival of Roman/antichrist empire.
Little horn (boastful, persecutes saints 3.5 times) parallels Antichrist's 42 months.
Rev 17 scarlet beast is explicitly the same entity (seven heads/ten horns), supporting false religion (woman/Babylon) temporarily before destroying it.
Overall: Daniel 7 prophesies successive empires culminating in a final oppressive kingdom with a blasphemous ruler; Revelation portrays its end-times manifestation, persecution of believers, false worship, and ultimate defeat by Christ (the "Son of man"/Lamb).
The Ten Horns on the Fourth Beast (Daniel 7)In Daniel 7, Daniel sees four beasts rising from the sea, representing successive kingdoms. The fourth beast is the most terrifying:Daniel 7:7 (KJV): "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."Daniel 7:24 (KJV) explains: "And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be different from the first, and he shall subdue three kings."While considering the horns, a little horn emerges:Daniel 7:8 (KJV): "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..."This little horn (the Antichrist) rises to power by subduing or destroying three of the original ten kings, taking control over the remaining seven. The little horn speaks blasphemies, persecutes the saints for "a time and times and the dividing of time" (3½ years, Daniel 7:25), aligning with the latter half of the Tribulation.The Seven Heads and Ten Horns in Revelation (Rev 13:1; 17:3)These symbols reappear in Revelation, describing the beast empowered by the dragon (Satan), representing the final Antichrist system during the Tribulation.Revelation 13:1 (KJV): "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy."This beast combines features of Daniel's earlier beasts (leopard-like, bear feet, lion mouth) and receives power from the dragon for 42 months (3½ years, Revelation 13:5), during which it blasphemes God and wars against the saints.Revelation 17:3 (KJV) describes a similar scene: "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."The angel explains the meaning in Revelation 17:Revelation 17:12-13 (KJV): "And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."Revelation 17:14 (KJV) adds that these kings "shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them..."Connection to the Final Confederacy and the Three Kings SubduedThese passages describe the final confederacy of ten kings (or kingdoms/nations) that form a short-lived alliance in the end times, likely a revived Roman Empire or global political structure (the fourth beast's final phase). The ten horns represent these simultaneous rulers.The Antichrist (little horn/beast) rises among or after them, subduing three kings (plucking up three horns), consolidating power over the remaining seven. The ten kings then unite to give their authority to the beast/Antichrist for a brief period ("one hour"), supporting his rule during the Great Tribulation before ultimately turning on the harlot (false religious system) and facing defeat by Christ at His return.
This fits the Tribulation timeline: a seven-year period (from Daniel's 70th week), with the Antichrist's full dominance in the second half (3½ years of intense persecution). The three subdued kings highlight the Antichrist's ruthless rise to absolute power over this final ten-kingdom confederacy. All of this culminates in Christ's victory and the establishment of His eternal kingdom (Daniel 7:27; Revelation 19-20). These prophecies emphasize God's ultimate sovereignty over earthly powers.
This fits the Tribulation timeline: a seven-year period (from Daniel's 70th week), with the Antichrist's full dominance in the second half (3½ years of intense persecution). The three subdued kings highlight the Antichrist's ruthless rise to absolute power over this final ten-kingdom confederacy. All of this culminates in Christ's victory and the establishment of His eternal kingdom (Daniel 7:27; Revelation 19-20). These prophecies emphasize God's ultimate sovereignty over earthly powers.
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