The last beast of Daniels and Johns vision Fourth beast: had ten horns, and was notably different from the other beasts and exceedingly strong. Three horns were plucked to make way on the fourth beasts head for a new horn that speaks pompously. In regards to the dream that the king had of the statue and the feet made of iron and clay, 10 toes, these two elements don't bond so this may represent the instability of the nations that will rise out to be the final empire.
There has been talk about this beast being the United Nations, but i am not to sure about it. Agreed, the UN can at is's disposal have military power through the US, but i don't think it is the US either as alot out there do. We have to ask the question in respect to today's economic world, what drives our world today? Money, without it you don't have arms, military, anything like that, you can't feed your people and buy or sell anything.
We know that the last empire will represent the old Roman Empire in respect to power as the empire never really vanished, it was split in two. In my humble opinion i think the rise of the beast will be the coming together of the European Union, and through that the Antichrist will rise. Since WW2 nations have been fighting for the upper hand in the economic world to gain power and most of the time by military force. But if you get all 10 EU nations together to the point where they can establish themselves as a economic power house, then military means will pretty much become obsolete as regards to money because you won't have a lot of it. The EU for decades have been pushing for a New World Order, with a one payment money system. Today more and more people are using direct debit and cards and fast moving away from paper money as we know it today.
Chips inserted into the hands are becoming more and more a thing and companies are adopting this, at the moment employees have a choice in the matter, but what if that were to change and it became compulsory by a leader that rises up through the ranks in the EU and brings stability to the nations. This push is being realized with the reasoning of easier to pay bills, not having to handle cash, getting robbed, everything paid by a chip in your body that contains all you private information. You pretty are turned into a walking, talking self information dictionary for the authorities of the NWO.
I believe that with the right motivation the EU can turn into a economic power houise with the control of how money is spent, used, transferred, and if it turns out to be via some form of chip later in the tribulation they can turn you off and cut you off from buying and selling if you don't acknowledge the beast and worship it. Remember, there are 3 and a half years of peace, and now and towards the new rise of this person, there has been a push from all banking entities all over the world to get rid of money and have ab better way of doing things, and because this has been a part of our lives for a long time now with the internet and paying over the net pretty much everything to the point you can do your grocery shopping online now, we are being weened as it were to this end whether the banks now it or not about the prophecy in Revelation. Other nations that once were power houses will submit to the NWO Empire because:
1. The once EU in its new look will have the power over all the money in respects to the new way of payments and
2. Militarily it will be a power house that is greater than any super power today due to the nations that buy into it. The EU today is working towards this and have been for decades and i believe that the antichrist will use this EU to ultimately bring everything to a head.
Though this is just my humble opinion. Please excuse any typos, i have only one good eye and my hands sometimes move faster that the eye lol..