Need to know.
Daniel 7:25 says the little horn would “think to change times and law.”
The little horn is not left unidentified. Daniel 7 shows it rising out of divided Rome, among the ten horns, uprooting three, speaking against God, persecuting the saints, and ruling for “a time, times, and half a time.” This identifies the Roman Papacy.
The “law” side of the prophecy is seen in the Papacy’s treatment of the Ten Commandments, especially in changing the Sabbath commandment to honour Sunday.
But Daniel says the little horn would also think to change the “times.”
That matters because Daniel has already told us who controls the times. Daniel 2:21 says God “changes the times and the seasons” and “removes kings and raises up kings.” In context, Daniel is speaking about God’s rule over history. He reveals the rise and fall of kingdoms before they happen: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, divided Rome, the Antichrist power, and then the kingdom of God.
So the “times” are not incidental. They are part of the prophetic timeline God revealed.
The Papacy could not change God’s actual timetable. But it could attempt to change how that timetable is understood.
That is exactly what happened through Preterism and Futurism. During the Counter-Reformation, Jesuit priests systematised alternative prophetic views that moved the Antichrist away from the Papacy. Luis de Alcázar developed the preterist approach, pushing Antichrist prophecy into the distant past. Francisco Ribera developed the futurist approach, pushing Antichrist prophecy into the distant future.
Though they move in opposite directions, both achieve the same result: the Papacy is removed from the prophetic timeline Daniel gives.
That is why the “times” element matters. The same power that claimed authority to alter God’s law also promoted systems that obscure God’s prophetic timeline.
If the Papacy is no longer seen as the little horn, then Daniel’s warning is neutralised. The Antichrist is either buried in the past or postponed into the future, while the very system prophecy exposes continues with renewed power to deceive.
Daniel 7:25 says the little horn would “think to change times and law.”
The little horn is not left unidentified. Daniel 7 shows it rising out of divided Rome, among the ten horns, uprooting three, speaking against God, persecuting the saints, and ruling for “a time, times, and half a time.” This identifies the Roman Papacy.
The “law” side of the prophecy is seen in the Papacy’s treatment of the Ten Commandments, especially in changing the Sabbath commandment to honour Sunday.
But Daniel says the little horn would also think to change the “times.”
That matters because Daniel has already told us who controls the times. Daniel 2:21 says God “changes the times and the seasons” and “removes kings and raises up kings.” In context, Daniel is speaking about God’s rule over history. He reveals the rise and fall of kingdoms before they happen: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, divided Rome, the Antichrist power, and then the kingdom of God.
So the “times” are not incidental. They are part of the prophetic timeline God revealed.
The Papacy could not change God’s actual timetable. But it could attempt to change how that timetable is understood.
That is exactly what happened through Preterism and Futurism. During the Counter-Reformation, Jesuit priests systematised alternative prophetic views that moved the Antichrist away from the Papacy. Luis de Alcázar developed the preterist approach, pushing Antichrist prophecy into the distant past. Francisco Ribera developed the futurist approach, pushing Antichrist prophecy into the distant future.
Though they move in opposite directions, both achieve the same result: the Papacy is removed from the prophetic timeline Daniel gives.
That is why the “times” element matters. The same power that claimed authority to alter God’s law also promoted systems that obscure God’s prophetic timeline.
If the Papacy is no longer seen as the little horn, then Daniel’s warning is neutralised. The Antichrist is either buried in the past or postponed into the future, while the very system prophecy exposes continues with renewed power to deceive.
Need to know.
Daniel 7:25 says the little horn would “think to change times and law.”
The little horn is not left unidentified. Daniel 7 shows it rising out of divided Rome, among the ten horns, uprooting three, speaking against God, persecuting the saints, and ruling for “a time, times, and half a time.” This identifies the Roman Papacy.
The “law” side of the prophecy is seen in the Papacy’s treatment of the Ten Commandments, especially in changing the Sabbath commandment to honour Sunday.
But Daniel says the little horn would also think to change the “times.”
That matters because Daniel has already told us who controls the times. Daniel 2:21 says God “changes the times and the seasons” and “removes kings and raises up kings.” In context, Daniel is speaking about God’s rule over history. He reveals the rise and fall of kingdoms before they happen: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, divided Rome, the Antichrist power, and then the kingdom of God.
So the “times” are not incidental. They are part of the prophetic timeline God revealed.
The Papacy could not change God’s actual timetable. But it could attempt to change how that timetable is understood.
That is exactly what happened through Preterism and Futurism. During the Counter-Reformation, Jesuit priests systematised alternative prophetic views that moved the Antichrist away from the Papacy. Luis de Alcázar developed the preterist approach, pushing Antichrist prophecy into the distant past. Francisco Ribera developed the futurist approach, pushing Antichrist prophecy into the distant future.
Though they move in opposite directions, both achieve the same result: the Papacy is removed from the prophetic timeline Daniel gives.
That is why the “times” element matters. The same power that claimed authority to alter God’s law also promoted systems that obscure God’s prophetic timeline.
If the Papacy is no longer seen as the little horn, then Daniel’s warning is neutralised. The Antichrist is either buried in the past or postponed into the future, while the very system prophecy exposes continues with renewed power to deceive.
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