Daniel 7:19

"Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was diverse from all of them, exceeding terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom."

Some scholars have mistakenly confused "saints of the Most High" with the Jewish people; but, in this connection it must be remembered that during the times of the fourth beast with the ten horns and the little horn that made war against God's people, the Jews are most definitely not meant. Israel was at that time in total rebellion against God and had already suffered judicial hardening. Therefore, the mention of "saints" here is a reference to Christians, servants of Jesus Christ. Any notion that secular Israel, or racial Jews ever "received the kingdom of Christ" is totally refuted by every word of the New Testament.

It is precisely in the instance of these ten horns and the little horn that uprooted three of the ten, persecuted God's people, and became a perpetual factor on earth even until the time of the judgment, - it is precisely here that the fourth beast was "diverse" from the others. See under Daniel 7:25, below, for interpretation of "how long" this little horn continued, namely, for "time and times and half a time."

"Until ... the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom ..." The possession of the kingdom here is not a reference to the establishment of the kingdom, nor to the entry of saints into the kingdom, but is a reference to that point in the future at which time, "The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ: and he shall reign forever and ever" (Revelation 11:15).