[adambyte]

The beast is called the "Revived Roman Empire".

What, if, instead of taking this passage literally, as in the physical space that the Roman Empire used to be (Europe), we take this metaphorically ( like the rest of your argumetn with horns and whatnot)... wouldn't the new Roman Empire be the U.S? Nowadays, the United States is the most influental empire on earth...

Not that that really proves anything. This prophecy stuff is just a whole lot of wild guessing until you realize what it means later when it actually happens.