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Antichrist with a little ‘a’

Daniel 8

Bible = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth

As we start chapter 8, the book returns to the HEBREW language

I believe that God will use the Book of Daniel to turn untold millions of JEWISH hearts to Jesus their Messiah during that time of Great Tribulation.

Daniel transported from Babylon to Shusan via VISION in 550 BC                         V. 1-2

Verse 16 tells us that the angel GABRIEL was involved; this is the first mention of any good angel’s name in the Bible.

The Ram with 2 horns is Medo-PERSIA                                                                    V. 3-4, 20

The Goat that will be GREECE                                                                                   V. 5-8, 21-22

The notable horn was Alexander the Great: his troops first defeated the Persians in 334 BC and decimated them over the next 3 years

In 550 BC Daniel predicted what would happen 200 years later, that just as Alexander was at his greatest, he would be broken and Greece would be divided into FOUR pieces.

The Antichrist with a little ‘a’                                                                        V. 9-14, 23-26

The Syrian ruler named Antiochus fulfilled most of these things.

Antiochus was a person who was anti-God; in looking at how Daniel describes him, we get a portrait of the Antichrist of the END times.

Antiochus insisted that his followers refer to him as Antiochus Epiphanes, which means ‘GLORIOUS one.’

The 2300 days was fulfilled between 171 BC and 164 BC.

Onias the Jewish high priest was assassinated in 171 BC.

After the death of Antiochus, the Jews celebrated the cleansing of their holy place in the feast of lights, or HANUKKAH, in celebration of the restoration led by Judas Maccabeus on December 25, 164 BC.

And God also used Greece to get a far greater area ready to receive the gospel of Jesus Christ than just Palestine; indeed, THREE continents worth of people who spoke Greek when Jesus came!