Europe and the Church, Part 6: The First of the Seven Mountains on Which the Woman Sits
After the uprooting of the three little horns (Daniel 7:8), with the growing power of the papacy, Europe was now set to witness the first attempted restoration of imperial Rome under the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian. This was to be the first of the "seven mountains on which the woman sits" (Revelation 17:9).
by Melvin Rhodes
Daniel 7:7-9 showed that the Roman Empire would continue in different forms right down until the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of the Kingdom of God.
There were to be 10 horns or 10 revivals of the Roman Empire. A horn is symbolic of aggressive strength, and it is associated with political authority and power. It can also symbolize royalty.
In addition, an extra horn was prophesied that would not be a military power like Rome and the other 10, but would be a "mouth speaking pompous words" (verse 8), a reference to the false religious system based in Rome.
Before this horn reached preeminence, the same verse says "three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots," a prophecy that was fulfilled in the three barbaric tribes that briefly subdued Rome in the fifth and early sixth centuries.
The other seven horns prophesied in Daniel 7 were to follow the ascendancy of the Roman church. This church, pictured as a woman in the book of Revelation, was to "sit" on the seven, in an uneasy relationship likened to "fornication" (Revelation 17:2).
