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Rome Cannot be a Little Horn
It was the Fourth World Empire of Prophecy
Grattan Guinness dispensed with this theory with one sentence in his
classic Approaching End of the Age..."The Roman Empire cannot be a
"little horn".
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The Papacy Did not Defile the Sanctuary
They Fought to Cleanse It
The papacy did not defile or cast down the sanctuary in Jerusalem.
In fact, the popes led many crusades whose aim it was to cleanse
Jerusalem from infidel occupation.
Historicist expositors through the 18th century understood the
sancturary to signify the church. But, by the end of the 19th
century most expositors taught that the sanctuary was Jerusalem.
The notable exception is the Seventh Day Adventist expositors.
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The Little Horns of Daniel 7 and 8
They Cannot Signify the Same Power
If Daniel 8 is Rome then the little horns of Daniel 7 and 8 are the
same prophetic character. This is logically impossible the way the
two chapters are written. See this chart which compares the two.
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The Four Horns are in the East
Rome is in the West
The little horn was to arise in the East amid the four part division
of the Greek Empire. Rome is in the territory of the Ten Horns.
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The 2300 Days or Years
The Time Period Does Not Fit
No one even attempts to make the 2300 work with the Roman
Empire. And the two main terminal dates for the Papacy, 1798 and
1866 do not coincide with 1844. The Adventists disappointment in
1844 was due to their misunderstanding of what the sanctuary was.
Grattan Guiness figured it out a generation later.
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The 18th Century Interpretation
Adventists Continue Old Teaching
The Seventh Day Adventists are alone in supporting this theory today.
It is interesting to note that The Adventist's own historian Leroy Froom
profusely demonstrates that most of the non-Millerite expositors of the
early 19th century had switched to the Mohammedan theory.
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