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<h2><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'1-');">Daniel 8</a></h2>
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<h4>The Ram and the Goat</h4>
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<p class="cmn">Now the text reverts back to Hebrew: "Third section" = Israel. Two years after vision of <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,'1-');">Dan 7</a>; 12 years before Belshazzar's feast in <a onclick="return mV('Dan',5,'1-');">Chapter 5</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'1');">1</a>] Third year: 51 B.C.</p>
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<p class="cmn">At Shushan in the palace: Susa, 150 miles north of head of Persian Gulf, midway between Ecbatgana and Persepolio; later main residence of Persian kings. Susa served as the capital of Elamites in antiquity. Famous palace begun by Darius I and later enlarged. Code of Hammurabi found there in 1901.</p>
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<p class="cmn">230 miles east of Babylon. Daniel projected to a town little known at that time, destined to be capital of Persian empire, home of Esther, city of Nehemiah,
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<a onclick="return mV('Neh',1,1);">Neh 1:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Est',1,2, 5);">Est 1:2, 5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Est',2,3, 5);">Est 2:3, 5</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn">"Awake?" Many opinions. Josephus believes he was actually there. Also Keil, Rosenmuller, Bertholdt. Others: in a vision? Montgomery, Syriac, Vulgate, John Calvin. Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Eze',8,3);">Ezekiel 8:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',40,'1');">Eze 40:1</a>ff to Jerusalem; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',17,3);">Rev 17:3</a>, John in the wilderness.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'3');">3</a>] Two horns, unequal. W-N-S.<a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,20);">v. 20</a>: Medo-Persia. One empire, not two.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Keil: Guardian spirit of Persian kingdom in the form of a ram with clean feet, sharp-pointed horns; The Persian king, at the head of his army, wore the head of ram instead of the diadem. (Ammianus Marcellinus, fourth century historian.)</p>
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<p class="cmn">Zodiac: Persia = Aries, the Ram; Greece = Capricorn, the goat (<i>L. caper</i>, goat; <i>cornu</i>, horn.) Shared with Syria from Seleucid monarchy.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'5');">5</a>] "buck of the goats":
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<a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,21);">v. 21</a> First king: Alexander the Great. Onehorned goat was a symbol for the ancient Macedonians.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Alexander crossed the Hellespont with 35,000 troops, first met and defeated the Persians at the Granicus River in Asia Minor in May 334 B.C. 1<> years later, the battle at Issus near the NE tip of Mediterranean Sea, Nov 333 B.C.; Finally broken at Gaugamela (Arbella) near Nineveh in Oct 331 B.C.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'8');">8</a>] Great horn broken: Died at 32, dissipated life, drunken debauch, at Babylon (11 years after leaving home country).</p>
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<p class="cmn">Empire took 22 years to divide. <b>Cassander:</b> Macedonia and Greece. <b>Lysimacus:</b> Thrace, Bithynia, most of Asia Minor: Phrygia, Lydia,</p>
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<p class="cmn">Mysia. <b>Seleucus:</b> Syria, lands to the east, including Babylonia to India; declined during Seleucus II, beginning 246 B.C.; converted to a Roman province by Pompey in 64 B.C. <b>Ptolemy:</b> Egypt, Cyrene, Coele-Syria, Arabia Petraea, southern parts of Asia Minor. (A fifth contender: Antigonus, soon defeated, 301 B.C.)</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">9</a>] Little Horn. S: Egypt;</p>
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<p class="cmn">E: Medo-Persia, Armenia;<br>Pleasant Land:
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<a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,16,41,45);">Dan 11:16,41,45</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,19);">Jer 3:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',20,6, 15);">Eze 20:6, 15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mal',3,12);">Mal 3:12</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn"><b>Antiochus Epiphanes,</b> 8th King of the Syrian dynasty, 175-164 B.C. ((1 Macc 1:10; 6:16); infamous brother of Cleopatra. Ascended the throne following the murder of his brother, the former king, Seleucus Philopator. The son of Seleucus, Demetrius, the rightful heir to the throne still lived but was held as hostage in Rome. Antiochus succeeded in obtaining the throne largely through flattery and bribery (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,'21');">Dan 11:21</a>). Not even rightful heir; once crowned, assumed "Epiphanes," "Illustrious." (See also notes on Chapter 11.)</p>
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<p class="cmn"><i>?Erets hatstsebi</i> ("glorious land") taken from the Ptolemies in a series of battles between Antiochus III, the father, and Ptolemy V in 202-198 B.C.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'10');">10</a>] Host: people of God
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(<a onclick="return mV('Gen',15,5);">Gen 15:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Gen',22,17);">Gen 22:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,3);">Dan 12:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',13,43);">Mat 13:43</a>).</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'11');">11</a>] Desolation of Sanctuary: the "Abomination of Desolation." (Controversies begin here...
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<a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'11-14');">Dan 8:11-14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'20-26');">Dan 8:20-26</a>.) Stopped morning and evening sacrifices.</p>
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<p class="cmn">"Daily sacrifices": <i>tamid,</i> applies to the daily offerings (Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Exd',29,38);">Exd 29:38</a>ff; <a onclick="return mV('Num',28,3);">Num 28:3ff</a>).</p>
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<p class="cmn" style="margin-bottom:0px;">"And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the land, to forbid burnt offerings and sacrifices and drink offerings in the sanctuary, to profane Sabbaths and feasts, to defile the sanctuary and the priests, to build altars in sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and unclean animals, and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, so that they should forget the law and change all the ordinances. And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die."</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:right;">1 Maccabees 1:44-49<br>(cf. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,27);">Dan 9:27</a>)</p>
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<p class="cmn">"one saint speaking" = "awesome numberer"?</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'14');">14</a>] "2,300 days?" Year-day? Seventh Day Adventists: 1884, 2nd Coming? 24-hour days?</p>
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<p class="cmn">171 B.C., Onias III (Sept 6?), the legitimate high priest murdered; pseudo-priest assumed power. Onias III had been removed from office and replaced by his wicked brother, Jason, who had bribed Antiochus for the position. In 172 B.C. another brother, Menelaus, succeeded in replacing Jason by promising a larger bribe. In 171, Menelaus murdered the good Onias III who had rebuked him for giving away and selling many of the gold utensils of the Temple. 2 Macc 4:7-50. (Actual desecration, Dec 25, 167 B.C. re: <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',10,22);">John 10:22</a>, coins found with title "Epiphanes.")</p>
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<p class="cmn">164 B.C.: Death of Antiochus. [Not precise day.] 6y 3m 20d Evening-Mornings (<i>?ereb boker</i>) = (1150 days)? (110 days short of 3<> years.)</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'17');">17</a>] "Gabriel": First mention in the Bible of an Angel by name. <i>Gaber,</i> man; <i>El</i>, God (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,21);">Dan 9:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',1,19, 26);">Luk 1:19, 26</a>).</p>
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<p class="cmn">"Michael," <a onclick="return mV('Dan',10,13, 21);">Dan 10:13, 21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,1);">Dan 12:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jud',1,9);">Jude 9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',12,7);">Rev 12:7</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'18');">18</a>] Deep Sleep: aroused (cf. <a onclick="return mV('Eze',1,'28-');">Eze 1:28</a> to <a onclick="return mV('Eze',2,'1-2');">Eze 2:2</a>). ["Out of body" view from Babylon?]</p>
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<p class="cmn">Indignation (also <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,36);">Dan 11:36</a>): God's anger against Israel. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,17, 18);">v.17, 19</a>: time of end? Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,27);">Dan 9:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,35);">11:35ff</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Is the Little Horn of <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,8,11,20, 21);">7,8,11,20,21</a> = Little Horn of <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'9');">8</a>? = Willful King of Chapter <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,'36');">11</a>? Not identical, except as types: one of the 4th; other one of the 3rd, empires. The third kingdom not Rome.</p>
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<p class="cmn"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'15-17');">Dan 8:15-17</a>: A dual fulfillment? Scofield, Louis T. Talbot, William Kelly, Nathaniel West, Joseph A. Seiss. [Temple always destroyed on 9th of Av, Tisha B'av...]</p>
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<p class="cmn">King of Javan <i>(melek yawan)</i> = Greece <a onclick="return mV('Gen',10,24);">Gen 10:24</a>, <a onclick="return mV('Isa',66,19);">Isa 66:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',27,13,'23-25');">Eze 27:13, 23-25</a>).</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px;">1) He is to appear in the later times of Israel's history, <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,23);">Dan 8:23</a>;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px;">2) Through alliance with other nations, he achieves worldwide influence, <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,24);">Dan 8:24</a>;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px;">3) A peace program helps his rise to power, <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,25);">Dan 8:25</a>;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px;">4) Extremely intelligent and persuasive, <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,23);">Dan 8:23</a>;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px;">5) Characterized by Satanic control, <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,24);">Dan 8:24</a>;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px;">6) Great adversary against Israel and the prince of princes, <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'24-25');">Dan 8:24-25</a>;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 20px;">7) A direct judgment from God terminates his rule ("Terminator III"), <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,25);">Dan 8:25</a>;</p>
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<p class="cmn">He will appear in the later time of their kingdom: when transgressors are come to the full (?); forcing punishment (Israel themselves); <a onclick="return mV('Gen',15,16);">Gen 15:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',23,32);">Mat 23:32</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Th',2,16);">1Th 2:16</a>; Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Gen',15,'13-16');">Gen 15:13-16</a>;</p>
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<p class="cmn">As the days of Noah: <a onclick="return mV('Gen',6,'5-13');">Gen 6:5-13</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Cf. "We will not have this man to reign over us": <a onclick="return mV('Luk',19,14);">Luk 19:14</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Interprets dark sentences
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(<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',10,1);">1Ki 10:1</a>).</p>
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<p class="cmn">Broken without hand: Antiochus died of a foul disease.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Different character than Little Horn of
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<a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,8,11,20, 21);">Daniel 7:8,11,20,21</a>? <br> Roman, not Greek!<br> King of the North = Syria;
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<a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,'6-15');">Dan 11:6-15</a>?<br> Assyrian of
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<a onclick="return mV('Mic',5,'5-6');">Micah 5:5-6</a>?<br> Or will the Antichrist come out of Syria?</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'23');">23</a>] Absorbed by Rome.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'26');">26</a>] "Preserve": shut up.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'27');">27</a>] Immediate resumption of duties: was Daniel in Babylon all the time?<br>[Still worked for Belshazzar? Or Nabonidus?]</p>
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<p class="cmn">time of the end <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,17);">Dan 8:17</a>;<br>latter time…appointed…<a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,19);">Dan 8:19</a>
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<br>latter time <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,23);">Dan 8:23</a> <br> <a onclick="return mV('Mat',24,15);">Matthew 24:15</a>, <a onclick="return mV('Mar',13,14);">Mark 13:14:</a> 200 years after!…</p>
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<p class="cmn">Indignation? <a onclick="return mV('Deu',29,'24-28');">Deu 29:24-28</a>;adultery of unprincipled woman: <a onclick="return mV('Eze',16,32);">Eze 16:32</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',1,'1-');">Hosea 1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',2,'1-');">Hosea 2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',3,'1-');">Hosea 3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',4,'1-');">Hosea 4</a>… <a onclick="return mV('Amo',9,8);">Amo 9:8</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Strange work, <a onclick="return mV('Isa',28,21);">Isa 28:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,24);">Dan 9:24</a>.</p>
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