While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.
Daniel 7:8
Daniel records ten horns, followed by an eleventh, which would persecute the church. In the history of Rome, this corresponds to the first ten emperors, from Caesar Augustus through Nero, the fifth, to Titus as the tenth. Domitian is the eleventh horn. This corresponds to the 7 + 1 horns of Revelation 17, where John’s vision omits the three kings who were only there for a short time. It is said they did not rule over Judea.
This correlation to Domitian fits perfectly, although not with the 70 AD fulfillment camp, because Domitian did indeed change the times by altering the month names and the laws by overturning the Roman legal system.
In both accounts, he was the specific beast mentioned, although the beast also signified the empire as a whole.
Regardless, the natural fit of both of these two passages seems evident in itself, that, so long as everything else fits, would be the most plausible explanation for the identity of this horn. Hence, the burden of proof falls upon others, who hold a more complicated explanation, to show why it is false.