marked the beginning of the 70 weeks. It was clear that the decree given to Ezra in the seventh year of Artaxerxes (not the permission granted to Nehemiah in the twentieth year of the same king) fulfilled the prediction.14 . Andrews identified the little horn in harmony with the Millerite position as Satan’s two persecuting powers or “desolations”: paganism and papacy. These powers, accordingly, represented “the two grand forms of opposition, by which Satan has desolated the