By the year 476 A.D. the Roman Empire had been broken up into exactly ten kingdoms.

The historian Machiavelli, without the slightest reference to this prophecy, gives the following list of the nations which occupied the territory of the Western Empire at the time of the fall of Romulus Augustus (476 A.D.), the last emperor of Rome: the Lombards, the Franks, the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Heruli, the Suevi, the Huns, and the Saxons: ten in all.

They have never since the breaking up of old Rome been united into one single empire; they have never formed one whole even like the United States. No scheme of proud ambition seeking to reunite the broken fragments has ever succeeded; when such have arisen, they have been invariably dashed to pieces."

"And the division is as apparent now as ever. Plainly and palpably inscribed on the map of Europe this day, it confronts the skeptic with its silent but conclusive testimony to the fulfillment of this great prophecy."

"The Divine Program of the World's History," by H. Grattan Guenness, pgs. 318-321. (As quoted in "Bible Readings For the Home," Review and Herald Publ. Assoc., London, MCMXLII, pgs 216,217).

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THE "BEAST" and the "LITTLE HORN"
APPENDIX 1A

1) The "little horn" has the "eyes of man."' Daniel 7:8. The "beast" has the number of a man."' Revelation 13:18.

2) The "little horn" "wears out the saints of the Most High."' Daniel 7:25. The "beast" also "makes war with the saints." Rev. 13:7.

3) The "little horn" speaks "great words against the Most High," Daniel 7.25. The "beast" also "Opened his mouth in blasphemy against God."' Revelation 13:6.

4) The "little horn" comes up among the ten horns (10 divisions of Rome.) Daniel 7.8.

The "beast" receives it's power, seat, and great authority"' from Rome (after the ten divisions were formed). Revelation 13:2.