3807 — The Ten Kingdoms
By Editor
Will you kindly give me the ancient and modern names of the ten kingdoms mentioned in the book of Daniel, the ones that are again to form an alliance with the Papacy at the time of the end? The ten kingdoms of the 7th chapter of Daniel, of which three were plucked up, were the Alemanni, the Franks, the Burgundians, the Vandals, the Suevi, the Visigoths, the Saxons, the Ostrogoths, the Lombards, the Heruli. Just what the names of the kingdoms will be which will form the alliance with the Papacy as set forth in Revelation 17, we do not know. They will probably be called, in a general way, the United States of Europe. We do not know how thoroly Socialism may change, or re-form these states. The names, of themselves, may not change. It may mean France and Spain and Italy and Austria-Hungary, and so forth, and so on; or the territory of Europe may be divided into ten more equal states, to be known as the ten United States, or United Powers, of Europe. It is not for us to say as to just what their names will be. They do not necessarily cover just the same territory as the first ten; and they are decidedly different in this respect,—that the first ten were not united in giving their power to the beast, or the union of church and state, while the last ten will come to that place where they are thoroly united in so doing.