52-THE TEN KINGDOMS by Bible Student

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 24, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 46.

52—THE TEN KINGDOMS

By Bible Student

Where are the ten kingdoms of Daniel 2 and 7 now? Which are they?

BIBLE STUDENT.

Daniel 2 does not predict ten kingdoms. It does speak of the toes of the image, but it does not speak of these toes as symbols of division. The symbols of Daniel two are not anatomical. Two legs do not represent Eastern and Western Rome, nor do the ten toes represent the ten divisions. The division of the Roman kingdom is represented by the iron and the clay, and this division begins with the feet.

Daniel 7 does present before us the symbols of ten kingdoms, under ten horns of the beast. These are ten kingdoms, he declares, that would come out of the Roman Empire. These ten kingdoms were developed between the years 351 and 476; but that the little horn might be set up, three of these kingdoms were overthrown. We do not have it stated in either of the prophecies of Daniel that there will be just ten again.

Since that time, they have been more or less, as one nation conquered another; but there will come a time when a ten-horned division will be developed, according to Revelation 17. At the present time there are something like a score of kingdoms in Europe; but in the Western Roman territory, where the original ten arose, there are now just about seven, the number after the three were plucked up. These are England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. The little territories of Belgium, Holland, and Scandinavia were not in the old ancient Roman territory. Before our Lord comes, there will be a ten-division empire, which will restore the beast again. See Revelation 17.