a climactic rebel to be identified as the Antichrist in the New Testament. We will say more about the latter in the Contemporary Significance section. But for now let it suffice to say that there is much to commend this approach in the light of later, fuller biblical revelation. The little horn will be defeated at the conclusion of the great cosmic struggle, a point to which the world has not yet arrived. The only criticism to be made is the insistence that the fourth kingdom be specifically identified