a beast in the making 

A Temple – 

A beast in the eyes of Daniel. Babylon destroyed the first Temple. Greece desecrated the second. Rome destroyed the second. What is preventing the third? The Dome of the Rock. Enter Islam, the fourth beast of Daniel and the second beast of the Apocalypse. It has ten horns and they shall hate the whore.

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a number 

A Year – 

A date, a beginning, a start, a mark.  Nearly every product sold today has a date marking its beginning.  The word “number” in Daniel refers to years.  Historians are good at ignoring what may have happened in the year 666 but we do know Islam was getting ready to attack Constantinople about that time.  

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a little horn 

A Fit with Daniel – 

A horn is a dynasty and before whom there were three of the first horns. Saladin came out of the Fatimid Caliphate, the fourth of ten Islamic dynasties, and would start the fifth, the Ayyubid dynasty. We also have the Battle of the Horns of Hama and the Battle of the Horns of Hattin. Both involved Saladin. He not only beat the crusaders, he beat Richard the Lionheart. It’s a fit.  

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a translation 

A Big Problem – 

A word can be misleading if you are looking for the king of the north. There are eight different words in 52 different translations: princes 24, commanders 10, officers 7, officials 5, generals 2, leaders 2, principalities 1, subordinates 1.  These are major differences in words used before you get to the problem of interpreting them.  

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