This message demonstrates that Antiochus Epiphanes is the little horn of Daniel 8:9-11.
In Daniel 2:32, 37-38, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is represented as the head of gold; in Daniel 7:4, he is a lion with a human heart.
In Daniel 2:32, 39, The empire of the Medes and Persian is represented as the chest and arms of silver; in Daniel 7:5, it is a bear.
In Daniel 2:32, 39, Greece is represented as the belly and thighs of brass; in Daniel 7:6, it is a leopard with four wings.
In Daniel 2:33, 40-43, Rome is represented as legs of iron with feet of iron and clay; in Daniel 7:7, it is a terrifying beast with iron teeth and ten horns. A little horn comes up out of one of these horns. This is the Man of Sin (Daniel 7:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4).
Two of these empires are singled out for a closer look in Daniel 8. The empire of the Medes and Persians is revealed as a two-horned ram (Daniel 8:3-4, 20), and Greece is a goat (Daniel 8:4-8, 21-25). The goat has one horn, Alexander the Great; he dies in 323 B.C. and is replaced by four of this generals: Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy. Out of the dynasty of Seleucus arises the little horn, Antiochus Epiphanes (Daniel 8:9-14, 21-25).
Antiochus sacrifices a pig to Zeus and stops the Jewish sacrifices for several years until he is defeated by the Hasmoneans and then dies mysteriously (Daniel 8:25).
Hanukkah celebrates the cleansing of the Jewish temple (John 10:22).
As one studies the persecutions of the Jewish people under Antiochus Epiphanes, it become very apparent that he is the greatest foreshadowing of the Man of Sin.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
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