The Ultimate Bad Guy at the End of Time

Chapter 8

The Dream

Key Dates

Key Dates553 B.C. = Date of Daniel 8

Key Dates553 B.C. = Date of Daniel 8539 B.C. = Babylon fall to Medo-Persia

Key Dates553 B.C. = Date of Daniel 8539 B.C. = Babylon fall to Medo-Persia331 B.C. = Medo-Persia falls to Greece

Key Dates553 B.C. = Date of Daniel 8539 B.C. = Babylon fall to Medo-Persia331 B.C. = Medo-Persia falls to Greece175 B.C. = Antiochus IV Epiphanes takes power

Key Dates553 B.C. = Date of Daniel 8539 B.C. = Babylon fall to Medo-Persia331 B.C. = Medo-Persia falls to Greece175 B.C. = Antiochus IV Epiphanes takes powerDecember 168 B.C. = The Temple sacrifices cease

Key Dates553 B.C. = Date of Daniel 8539 B.C. = Babylon fall to Medo-Persia331 B.C. = Medo-Persia falls to Greece175 B.C. = Antiochus IV Epiphanes takes powerDecember 168 B.C. = The Temple sacrifices ceaseDecember 25, 165 = The first Hanukkah

Key Figures

The Two Headed Ram

= Medo-Persia(v. 3)

The Goat = Greece(v. 5)

The Long Horn =Alexander the Great

(v. 8)

The Four Horns= Ptolemy – EgyptSeleucus – Syria/PersiaCassander Macedonia/GreeceLysimachus – Asia Minor

(v. 8)

The Small Horn =Antiochus IV Epiphanes

(v. 9)

The Small Horn =Antiochus IV Epiphanes

(v. 9)

Daniel 8:23-35

The Small Horn =Antiochus IV Epiphanes

(v. 9)

Daniel 8:23-35Daniel 8:14

“These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warning for

us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.”

1 Corinthians 10:11

The Prince of Hosts =God Himself

(v. 11)

Gabriel = The Angelic Interpreter of Dreams

(v. 16)

Daniel = The Servant to the

king(v. 27)

KeyLessons

The Bible is very accurate in

predicting the future

Prophecy sometimes has a near fulfillment and a far fulfillment

If the Small Horn was bad, the Little Horn

will be “badder”

God’s people sometimes suffer in

the hands of evil, but not forever

“In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart,

because I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33

“There is a time to mourn, and a time to dance, a time to

scatter stones, and a time to gather stones together.”

Ecclesiastes 3:4-5

Putting it all

Together

“As the lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the wet, so will be the coming

of the Son of Man.”

Matthew 24:27

Putting it all together

Putting it all together

Prepare yourself spiritually

Putting it all together

Prepare yourself spiritually

Rescue as many as possible

Putting it all together

Prepare yourself spiritually

Rescue as many as possible

Trust that what God says is true