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Daniel 8
Superpowers in Conflict
Daniel and the End of History
The GBC Inheritance Class
Fall 2010
Dr. Gene Pond
Our Story So Far
Daniel, a Hebrew statesman and prophetadvising the leaders of Babylon under two greatempires, has revealedfuture events including acoming world leader who will persecute theJews, God’ people.
—Daniel 1–7
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The Book of Daniel
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1–6Court Stories
Daniel presented in 3rd person
7–12 Apocalyptic Visions
Daniel records in 1st person
1:1–2:4aHeb.
2:4b–7:28 Aramaic
8–12Hebrew
Babylon
Persia
Greece
Rome
Near-History to Inform Far-Prophecy
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Daniel 8
A Pair of Locked Horns
The Vision Experienced 1–14 The Vision Explained 15–27
• The Background of the Ram1–4
• The He-Goat from the West5–8
• The Little Horn
9–14
• The Angel Gabriel15–18
• The Interpretation19-27
Daniel 8:1-4
The Backgroundof the RamTime: Belshazzar’s third year (551 B.C.)
A subsequent vision: Vision #2
His location in the vision: Susa, later to be one the palace cities of the Persiankings (Neh 1:1; Esth 1:2)
History records that the Persiansconsidered a ram with sharp, pointedhorns to be their guardian spirit, and theking bore the head of a ram instead of a
crown when he led his armies into battle.
Ram = Media and Persia (8:20)
Pushing without opposition in severaldirections: for 200 years, Persia would
be unstoppable in controlling the world.
Try to learn as much as you canabout the Bible. History supportsthe Scriptures.
We are involved in history andGod’s plan personally. He choseDaniel and Cyrus to work ineveryday history.
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The Conquests of Alexander the Great334–323 B.C.
Daniel 8:5–8
The He-Goatfrom the WestHe-Goat
From the West
= Greece (8:21)
Large horn = “First King”
ALEXANDER
Lysimachus overThrace and most
of Asia Minor
Cassander overMacedonia and
Greece
Ptolemy overEgypt and
possibly Palestine
Seleucus overSyria and vastterritory to the
east
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Daniel 8:9–14
The Little Hornof the He-GoatHomesickness (“the Beautiful land”, 9)
Seleucus’ horn, evidently, gave rise to aman named Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
Made himself a god, equal to the prince
Israel was God’s “host” (Exod 7:4; 12:41)
• He comes from a different beast8-9
• He opposed Israel(the host of heaven) 10a
• He tried to subvert Israel(through Hellenism) 10b
• He tried to replace the high priest(the Commander) 11
The 2,300 Evenings and Mornings
• Then I heard a holy onespeaking; and another holy onesaid to the one that spoke, “Forhow long is the vision concerningthe continual burnt offering, thetransgression that makesdesolate, and the giving over ofthe sanctuary and host to be
trampled under foot?”• And he said to him, “For two
thousand and three hundredevenings and mornings; then thesanctuary shall be restored toits rightful state.”
• 2,300 years, ending in 1844 when the temple in heaven would be cleansed
(Seventh Day Adventism)
• 3½ years of Great Tribulation—but this is not that tribulation
• The 2,300 days between 171 and164 BC during which Antiochus
would hold sway • The 1,150 days (3 ½ years)
between when statue set up untiltemple cleansed, fromdesecration until restoration
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Daniel 8:15-19 Gabriel the Vision Interpreter
• Angelsin Daniel
• Gabriel
• Daniel’sreaction 17
• “Time of theend” 17, 19
God knows the future, and He has apponted an ending time for1. Antiochus Epiphanes’ reign of terror2. The future end times
Daniel 8:20-27 The Vision Explained by Gabriel
The little goat horn’s rule The little goat horn’s ruin
• The animals explained20-22
• Antiochus IV Epiphanes23-24
▫ A case of propheticpre-illustration
▫ A type of the Antichrist
• God is willing to chart out our future; we should listen
• Shrewd and deceitfulself-aggrandizement 25a
• False peace with Israel 25b
• Messiah-hater 25c
• Limited by God 26
• The effect on Daniel 27
• When you seem to be down,sad, miserable: “Rise upagain” and get about the
King’s business