DANIEL 8

3rd year of king Belshazzar

The vision location

DANIEL 8:1-7

3rd year of king Belshazzar

The vision location

The ram

The male goat

Goat charges the ram

DANIEL 8:1-7

Male goat magnified himself

4 conspicuous horns

Small horn

Grew up to the host of heaven

DANIEL 8:8-12

Conversation between holy ones

How long?

For 2300 evenings and mornings

Gabriel told to give understanding

DANIEL 8:13-18

InterpretationTimeframe = Pertains to the time of the endRam = Kings of Media and PersiaGoat = GreeceLarge horn = 1st king4 horns = 4 kingdoms from Greece

DANIEL 8:19-22

Interpretation

Small horn = Insolent king

2300 = 2300 days

Keep the vision secret

Exhausted and sick

DANIEL 8:23-27

Ram’s longer hornPersia

Goat’s great hornAlexander the Great

Goat’s 4 hornsCassander (Greece)

Lysimachus (Asia Minor)

Seleucus (Syria; Babylon)

Ptolemy (Egypt)

WHO ARE THESE

LysimachusCassander

Seleucus Ptolemy

Goat’s small hornPossibly Antiochus IV

Not the Roman Empire

2300 evenings and mornings

Duration of 2300 days

Duration of 1150 days

Duration of 2300 years

WHO ARE THESE

CH 2 CH 7 CH 8

BABYLON GOLD HEAD LION

MEDO PERSIAN

SILVER TORSO

BEAR RAM

GREECEBRONZE THIGHS

LEOPARD GOAT

ROMAN IRON LEGS BEAST

CHURCHEVERLASTING

KINGDOMEVERLASTING

KINGDOM

QUESTIONS