Yes — Les Feldick teaches that Daniel's visions describe the European Community today as the revived Roman Empire, the fourth empire with ten horns that will serve as the Antichrist's base.
Daniel's fourth beast and the ten toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image look forward to a revived empire in Western Europe. Les identifies this as the European Community, which began with ten nations and will again end with ten nations. This revived Roman Empire will be the base of operation for the Antichrist, combining the residue of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
Daniel 7:7 — Daniel's fourth beast is dreadful, terrible, and strong exceedingly, with great iron teeth and ten horns — the empire Les sees returning as the European Community.
Daniel 2:41-42 — The ten toes on Daniel's image are part iron and part clay, showing a divided kingdom of ten parts — matching the ten nations of the European Community.
Revelation 13:1 — John's parallel vision of a beast out of the sea has seven heads and ten horns, confirming the same ten-nation empire Les connects to Daniel and Europe.
Daniel 7 describes Daniel's night vision of four great beasts coming up from the sea. The fourth beast is 'dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly' with 'great iron teeth' and 'ten horns' (Daniel 7:7). Daniel 2 records Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a great image, with feet and toes made of iron and clay; the toes are ten in number and the kingdom is partly strong and partly broken (Daniel 2:41-42). Revelation 13:1 shows a parallel vision of a beast rising out of the sea with seven heads and ten horns. Scripture itself does not name Europe or the European Community. It presents symbolic empires — beasts, horns, and toes — that are fulfilled in successive Gentile world powers. The Bible does say the final form of this fourth empire will be divided, with ten kings or horns, and that it will be in existence at the time of the tribulation.
Les Feldick teaches that Daniel's visions are the Bible's outline of the 'times of the Gentiles,' and he reads them alongside Revelation. He says Daniel saw the same four Gentile empires that Nebuchadnezzar saw as metals, but under the imagery of wild beasts: Babylon is the lion, Medo-Persia the bear, Greece the leopard, and Rome the fourth beast. Les places special emphasis on the fourth empire. In Daniel 7:7 the fourth beast is different from all the others and has ten horns. Les says this is the ancient Roman Empire that 'fell in on itself' and faded off the scene, but is now reappearing. He identifies today's European Community — Western Europe — as that revived Roman Empire. It started with ten nations, has fluctuated, and will end again with ten nations; these ten nations are the ten horns or ten toes that will be the base of operation for the Antichrist. Les also points to Revelation 13:3, where one of the beast's heads is 'wounded to death' and its deadly wound is healed, as the Roman Empire's death and resurrection in modern Europe. He notes that the beast in Revelation is not a literal seven-headed creature but a consortium of nations — an empire. He also observes that Western Europe today is an enlarged democracy, and democracies are weak, so this revived empire is inferior yet will still fulfill prophecy.
Les teaches that horns in Scripture refer to kings. The ten horns on Daniel's fourth beast and on the Revelation beast are not literal horns but a consortium of ten nations forming an empire. This ten-nation empire is the base of operation for the Antichrist. Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 both describe this same ten-horned, four-empire structure.
Les says the ancient Roman Empire fell in on itself and faded off the scene, but Daniel's vision shows that same fourth empire reappearing. He brings this prophecy up to the present by pointing to Western Europe, called the European Community, which began with ten nations and will end up with ten nations. He calls this the revived Roman Empire and says these are the ten toes and ten nations of Daniel 2.
Les explains that Daniel's vision shows the residue of all the earlier empires — Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome — coming back together in the revival of the fourth dreadful and terrible empire. The revived empire will have qualities of all of them: the lion, the bear, the leopard, and the iron-toothed fourth beast. Les says this is the culmination of satanic power.
Les says Western Europe today is an enlarged democracy, and democracies are weak because when people demonstrate, governments go down. Consequently, the European Community is inferior. Even so, it is the geographical and political area Daniel saw rising again, and it will end up with ten nations.
The Beast as a Consortium of Nations
Les explains that the seven-headed, ten-horned beast in Revelation parallels Daniel and represents an empire or consortium of nations rising out of the mass of humanity, not a literal creature. This empire is the Antichrist's base of operation.
The Fourth Empire Returns
Les teaches that Daniel's fourth beast is the ancient Roman Empire that faded off the scene and is now coming back, with ten horns representing kings.
The Deadly Wound Healed
Les shows that the residue of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome is coming together in the revived Roman Empire, using Revelation 13:3's deadly wound healed to bring it up to the present time.
Prophecy for the Gentile World
Les says Daniel's whole book deals with events that would happen to the Gentile world, and Daniel 8 begins with the Medo-Persian Empire, showing how accurately prophecy unfolds.
Daniel's Vision of the Same Empires
Les explains that Daniel saw the same Gentile empires as wild beasts rather than metals, giving the same unfolding of history from Babylon onward.
Western Europe as the Revived Roman Empire
Les explicitly identifies today's European Community in Western Europe as the revived Roman Empire: it started with ten nations, fluctuated, and will again end with ten nations, while Western democracies are weak and inferior.
Why Is Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Still Relevant Today? Daniel 2
But in our own day now we're seeing the rise of that same geographical and political area, Western Europe, called the European Community, and it started out with ten nations, and it's been fluctuating, and it's going to end up again with ten nations, and we call it the revived Roman Empire, and these are the ten toes, ten nations.
Daniel and Revelation Studied Together
Les says Daniel and Revelation must be studied together because Daniel's vision uses practically the same language; he describes the end of Gentile history as the culmination of satanic power.
Daniel 7:7: 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.
This is the fourth empire with ten horns that Les identifies with the revived Roman Empire and the European Community.
Daniel 2:41: And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
The ten toes of Daniel's image point to a divided final kingdom that Les applies to the ten nations of Europe.
Daniel 2:42: And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
This explains the mixed strength and weakness of the final ten-nation empire.
Revelation 13:1: 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.
John's parallel vision of a beast with ten horns matches Daniel's ten-horned empire and the Antichrist's base of operation.
Revelation 13:3: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Les uses this verse to explain the Roman Empire's death and its revival in modern Europe.
No. Daniel's visions describe empires as beasts, horns, and toes. Les Feldick applies Daniel's fourth empire and ten horns to the European Community because it occupies the same Western European territory as the ancient Roman Empire and is forming a ten-nation union.
Les says it started out with ten nations, has been fluctuating, and according to Daniel's prophecy it will end up again with ten nations. Those ten nations are the ten horns or ten toes of Daniel's vision.
Yes, according to Les. He equates the ten toes of Daniel's image with the ten nations of Western Europe and calls the entire area the revived Roman Empire.
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