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The second chapter of Daniel, which refers to the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, clearly points out
that the ten toes (kingdoms) are an extension of the previous world empire, or Rome, which
would then encompass all of the countries that fell within the boundaries of the Holy Roman
Empire: parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya; Egypt; part of Saudi Arabia; Jordan,
Israel, Syria, and Turkey; Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, part of the
Netherlands, England, part of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Greece, part of Hungary,
part of Yugoslavia, part of Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, and
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Let’s look at the ten horns or kingdoms, which many initially thought was represented by the
original Common Market countries of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Luxembourg, England, Denmark, Ireland, and Greece. The impact of the theory was lessened
upon the later addition of Spain, Portugal, and Austria, which made a total of thirteen nations in
what is now called the European Union. However, some still tried to make the argument, because
Denmark and Ireland were not part of the Roman Empire.
Another fact that supports the theory that the ten kings symbolically represent the area of
western Europe is that there are only ten kingdoms, or monarchies now in western Europe:
Belgium, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden,
and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland; Great Britain– England, Wales, Scotland).
Another confirming theory emanates from Daniel 9:26 which says: “...the people of the
prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary...” The people that destroyed
Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD were the Romans. Revelation 14:8 says: “Babylon
(sometimes perceived as a symbolic name for Rome) is fallen, that great city, because she made
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
According to Daniel 7:20, this leader of the eleventh country, will go against three of these
nations, and defeat them. Yet, Revelation speaks of the ten kings pledging their allegiance to the
Antichrist. Do these ten include the eleventh nation of the Antichrist? Will he defeat the three
nations, and replace them in the federation with his, and two others? Or will the three defeated
nations remain, under the leadership of the eleventh? What is the purpose for the Antichrist to go
against these three nations? Is it because they were not originally part of the revived Holy Roman
Empire; or if they were, what else could prompt him to attack these countries?
This beckons the theory about the ten tribes that lived in the area of Rome. Three were
defeated because they were Aryans who opposed the papacy– Herulians, Vandals, and
Ostrogoths; while the other seven became the nations of western Europe– Visigoths, Franks,
Anglo-Saxons, Sueves, Burgundians, Alamanni, and Alans. One possible clue is that these
nations may be apprehensive about uniting behind the political leadership of the Antichrist. For
example, when the European Community met in Maastricht, the Netherlands, in 1991, Great
Britain and Denmark voted against the initiation of a common currency. Another theory that
somebody e-mailed me, was that the three nations are Afghanistan (Media), Iraq (Babylon), and
Iran (Persia), by virtue of the fact that the U.S. has occupied Afghanistan and Iraq.
There are other theories concerning the origin of the Antichrist. Some researchers believe
that he has to come from Greece, Turkey, Syria, or Egypt; but not one of the countries which
make up the ten nation federation. That would eliminate Greece. Could this country be Syria. In
Isaiah 10:5, 10:24, 14:25, 30:31, he is referred to as the “Assyrian.” In Micah 5:5 it says: “And
this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread
in our palaces, then we shall raise against him...” The Aramaeans, a semi-nomadic people who
migrated from the Arabian desert around the third century BC, into Syria and Mesopotamia, have