Yes — Les Feldick teaches that Daniel's fourth empire is now reappearing as the European Community, the revived Roman Empire that will be ruled absolutely by the Antichrist.
In Daniel 7, the fourth beast — dreadful, terrible, and strong exceedingly — has ten horns. Les pairs that with Revelation 13's beast rising from the mass of humanity, a government with seven heads and ten horns. He identifies today's Western European Community as that same geographical and political area coming together again, a ten-nation confederacy he calls the revived Roman Empire. While it currently appears to be an inferior democracy, its coming ruler will be absolute and totalitarian.
Daniel 7:7 — The fourth beast with iron teeth and ten horns is the image Les identifies as the revived Roman Empire forming in Europe today.
Revelation 13:1 — John's beast rising from the sea with seven heads and ten horns matches Daniel's vision and shows the end-time government as a consortium of nations.
Revelation 13:3 — The deadly wound healed describes the Roman Empire's collapse and its revival, which Les sees happening in the European Community.
Daniel 7 records the prophet's vision of four great beasts coming up from the sea. The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings; the second was like a bear; the third like a leopard; and the fourth was 'dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly,' with great iron teeth and ten horns. Daniel is told that these four beasts are four kings that shall arise out of the earth. In Revelation 13, John sees a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns. One of its heads appeared 'as it were wounded to death,' yet 'his deadly wound was healed,' so that all the world wondered after the beast. Scripture's plain text thus presents a final coalition of kings or nations rising from the midst of humanity and recovering from a fatal collapse. The words 'Europe' and 'European Community' never appear in the Bible; connecting these prophecies to any modern continent is an interpretation, not the text itself.
Les sees Daniel 7 and Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2 as two views of the same four empires: Babylon (the lion/head of gold), Medo-Persia (the bear), Greece (the leopard), and Rome (the fourth beast/iron). The Roman Empire 'faded off the scene' and 'fell in on itself,' but Daniel 7 shows it coming back on the scene. In Revelation 13, John sees the same ten-horned beast rising 'out of the sand of the sea' — the mass of humanity — which Les insists is not a literal creature but 'a government,' 'a consortium of nations,' 'an empire.' Applying this to today, Les says: 'in our own day now we're seeing the rise of that same geographical and political area, Western Europe, called the European Community... and we call it the revived Roman Empire.' He notes that it started with ten nations, is fluctuating, and will end with ten nations — the ten horns and ten toes. He also observes that Western Europe today is 'an enlarged democracy,' and democracies are weak because people can demonstrate and bring the government down, making it inferior. Nevertheless, the final government will be bestial: the Antichrist will have Nebuchadnezzar's totalitarian power, the bear's crushing force, the leopard's swiftness and tenacity, and all the residue of Rome behind 'a seeming democracy' — but he himself will be absolute. Les concludes, 'this whole thing is coming together perfectly.'
Les explains that in Scripture, horns refer to kings. The beast John sees in Revelation 13 is not a literal monster: it is 'a government rise up out of the mass of humanity' — a consortium of nations, an empire — with seven heads and ten horns. Daniel's fourth beast in Daniel 7:7 likewise has ten horns. Les connects this directly to Europe: the European Community 'started out with ten nations, and it's been fluctuating, and it's going to end up again with ten nations.'
Yes, according to Les. He says Western Europe is the same geographical and political area that once was the Roman Empire: 'in our own day now we're seeing the rise of that same geographical and political area, Western Europe, called the European Community... and we call it the revived Roman Empire.' Daniel's fourth empire 'faded off the scene' and 'fell in on itself,' but it is coming back. Les sees Revelation 13:3 — a head 'wounded to death' with its 'deadly wound healed' — as the description of that return.
Les says Western Europe today is 'an enlarged democracy,' and 'democracies are weak.' His example: if people don't like the government, they can fill the streets and demonstrate, and the government falls. Therefore the revived empire has 'no real strength, and consequently it's inferior.' But the final ruler of that empire, the Antichrist, will not be weak — he will be absolute and totalitarian.
Les says the final government will be bestial and will draw from all earlier empires. The ruler will have 'the power and the totalitarian exercise of it like Nebuchadnezzar'; he will 'rumble over people like the old bear, the Medes, and the Persians'; he will have 'the swiftness... and the tenacity of the leopard empire of Alexander the Great'; and he will have 'all the residue of the ancient Roman Empire with a seeming democracy behind it.' But despite the democratic facade, 'he himself is going to be absolute.' Les says the same language appears in Revelation as in Daniel, and 'this whole thing is coming together perfectly.'
The Beast From the Sea — A Government, Not a Monster
Les shows that Revelation 13's beast is an empire — a consortium of nations — rising from the mass of humanity, and that the ten horns are kings, exactly matching Daniel's vision.
Daniel's Fourth Beast Is Rome Reappearing
Les explains that Daniel 7:7's dreadful fourth beast is the ancient Roman empire, which faded off the scene and is now coming back on the scene.
The Deadly Wound Healed
Les says Daniel sees all the residue of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome coming back together in the revival of the fourth empire, and Revelation 13:3's healed deadly wound describes that revival.
Daniel's Vision Mirrors Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
Les explains that Daniel 7 shows the same Gentile empires as Nebuchadnezzar's image — the same unfolding of history — but as wild beasts instead of metals.
First Beast: Babylon the Lion
Les identifies Daniel's first beast as Babylon, establishing the pattern that the beasts represent the successive empires of the times of the Gentiles.
The European Community as the Revived Roman Empire
Les directly answers the question: Western Europe's European Community is the rise of the same area as ancient Rome, started with ten nations, will end with ten, and is the revived Roman Empire with ten toes — though weak as a democracy.
Identical Teaching From Daniel 2
In a second lesson Les repeats the same identification of the European Community as the revived Roman Empire, reinforcing that this is a consistent part of his teaching.
The Coming Antichrist's Absolute Rule
Les says the final government will combine the totalitarian power of Nebuchadnezzar, the crushing force of the bear, the swiftness of the leopard, and Rome's residue behind a seeming democracy — but the Antichrist will be absolute.
Daniel 7:1: In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
The opening of the vision Daniel records, which Les reads as the same prophetic history as Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
Daniel 7:4: The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
The first empire, which Les identifies as Babylon.
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.
The fourth empire with ten horns, which Les identifies as the revived Roman Empire forming today.
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 end-times government rising from the sea of humanity, matching Daniel's ten-horned beast.
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.
The empire's deadly wound healed — Les's picture of Rome's fall and revival.
No. The European Community is never named in Scripture. Les Feldick's teaching is interpretive: he sees Western Europe's present shape as matching the Bible's description of a revived Roman Empire with ten horns, but that identification is his explanation of the text, not a direct biblical statement.
Les says the European Community 'started out with ten nations, and it's been fluctuating, and it's going to end up again with ten nations.' He equates these ten nations with the ten horns of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1, and with the ten toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image — the ten kings of the final empire.
Les teaches that the ten horns will be 'the base of operation for this world ruler we call the Antichrist.' The final government will appear democratic, but the Antichrist will be absolute, exercising totalitarian power while combining the traits of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
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