GREECE STAMPS ON MEDIO-PERSIA

Two years after Daniel’s first troubling vision (ch7), he is surprised to be given another heads-up (ch8) on the threat to the Babylonian Empire.  Notice he’s right in the hot spot!...  in the province Elam, between Babylon and Media.

Daniel now learns the lop-sided empire to follow Babylon is none other than neighbouring Media allied to Persia, represented now by a ram with horns that grow out of sync, one larger than the other.                                   

History proves the Persian Empire expanded and prospered exactly as predicted....but soon enough it’s all over for Persia!

                                                                                            

Next comes Greece - the goat from the west led by the ‘notable horn between his eyes’: Alexander the Great. After stamping on Medio-Persia the great horn breaks - Alexander dies at only 32 years old - and his empire splits between 4 ‘notable horns’: his generals Cassander, Lysimachus, Ptolemy I and Seleucus.                                                                                   

Out of one of these kingdoms (Seleucus of Syria) comes a ‘little horn’ who becomes exceeding great – even towards the ‘pleasant land’, taking on the host of heaven, even standing up against the Prince of princes, taking away the daily sacrifice and casting down the sanctuary. 

Who is this little horn?

Antiochus Epiphanes IV......who meet next.