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prominent women political leaders. This group of nations includes the U.S., 

and the leaders of European nations in exile, and unoccupied nations in 

Africa, and other free nations. The preeminent horn is a prominent leader, 

the great monarch. He leads the attack against the Arab forces in World 

War IV. The attack proceeds from the United States to Europe across the 

whole face of the earth without touching the ground, in other words, an 

attack from the air. This could include missiles and various types of air 

vehicles. 

The forces led by the great monarch are unstoppable because they pray to 

God, through the intercession of Mary and the Saints, and they ask for the 

assistance of the angels. The two leaders of the Arab forces are unable to 

withstand the attack; they are killed in the war. The great monarch frees the 

occupied lands and even conquers the Arabs in their own nations. 

{8:8} But the he goat among she goats became exceedingly great, and when 

he had prospered, the great horn was shattered, and four horns were rising 

up beneath it by means of the four winds of heaven. 

The he goat is the great monarch and his kingdom. After World War IV, 

and after supernatural punishments from God, the great monarch reigns 

during a time of relative peace and holiness over a great kingdom, including 

Europe, much of the Middle East, and parts of Africa. His political power 

and influence is unprecedented. He presides over the rebuilding efforts after 

the great war. He works with the Pope of that time, the Angelic Shepherd, to 

rebuild society according to Catholic teaching. 

When the reign of the great monarch ends, it is shattered. It does not 

continue to be a holy kingdom based on faith and reason. It is divided into 

four parts; four separate kingdoms. The four winds of heaven represent all 

the nations of the world, who collectively express their opinions and exert 

their influence so that the one kingdom of the great monarch is divided into 

four less holy, more secular kingdoms. 

{8:9} But from one of them came forth one little horn, and it became great 

against the Meridian, and against the East, and against the strength. 

Centuries after the end of the great monarch s reign, from out of one of the 

four kingdoms into which the great monarch s kingdom is divided, the 

Antichrist rises to power. The little horn is the Antichrist. At first, he is a 

leader with little power. He becomes great by overcoming the Strength, and 

by overcoming the Meridian (one of the ten kingdoms, the one based near