How many heads of state and crowns will the prophecy's empire have?
The prophecy's empire will have seven distinct heads of state and ten crowns. Its ten horns represent ten distinct nations or leaders, though three likely lack size and power to have their own head of state. Thus there are seven heads but ten crowns or leaders.
Les explains that this great empire rises out of the masses of humanity and has seven heads and ten horns. The horns are individual kings or emperors, as with the Medes and Persians depicted as a ram with two horns, representing the father of Cyrus and Cyrus. When this empire comes on the scene, there will be seven distinct heads of state, but there will be ten crowns. There will be ten distinct nations, three of whom probably will not be large enough or powerful enough to have their own head of state, yet out of these ten nations will come ten distinct leaders, prime ministers, or whatever you want to call them. He also notes that this empire is headed by Satan, not God, a Satanic consortium of politicians, and though it may not appear intrinsically evil outwardly, inwardly it is corrupt to the core.