The first of the 3 kingdoms, opposing the Papacy, was taken down (see:
SDP 94.2[1])
Fulfillment of:
The beginning of the Papacy's aquisition of power (Rev 13:2)
But Roman history did not end with the division. Daniel watched,
“And, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before
which there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots.”
A new power, a power outside the empire is here represented by the
little horn. The Margin three divisions which were plucked up were
the Heruli in 493, the Vandals in 534, and the Ostrogoths in 538 A.
D. Justinian, the emperor, whose seat was at Constantinople, working
through the general Belisarius, was the power which overthrew the
three kingdoms represented by the three horns, and the reason for
their overthrow was their adherence to Arianism in opposition to the
orthodox Catholic faith. The details of the overthrow, and the
religious controversy which was the root of the trouble, are fully
given by Gibbon in the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” by
Mosheim in his church history, and by others. SDP 94.2
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