Covenant Reformed News – December 2009 • Volume XII, Issue 20
This article provides a detailed exegetical analysis of Daniel 7, specifically examining the four beasts and their three phases, with particular focus on identifying the little horn as the Antichrist figure within Reformed eschatological framework. The author interprets the fall of Rome (476 AD) and the subsequent European kingdoms as fulfillment of Daniel's vision, arguing that believers currently live in the age of the ten horns awaiting the final phase with the Antichrist's appearance.
Daniel’s Night Vision (2) In the last News, we saw that the four beasts or Antichristian kingdoms of Daniel 7 arise out of the raging sea of human history. All this is decreed, governed and planned by the sovereign and just God of heaven and earth. The three phases of the fourth beast are described in verses 19-21 and verses 23-25. Phase one is the dominion of the fourth beast (19, 23). Phase two is the time of the ten horns which come up out of the head of the fourth beast (20, 24). Phase...