1After that vision (ABOUT 2 YEARS AFTER) I, Daniel, saw another vision during the third year that Belshazzar was King (ABOUT 551 B.C). 2 In the vision I saw that I was in the city of Shushan, the capital city in the province of Elam (PERSIA). I was standing by the Ulai River. 3 I looked up and saw a ram standing at the side of the river. The ram had two long horns (symbolising two kings of two separate kingdoms). The horns were both long, but one horn was longer than the other horn. The long horn was farther back than the other horn. 4 I watched the ram run into things with its horns. I watched the ram run to the west, to the north, and to the south. No other beast could stop the ram, for it did whatever it wanted, and it became very powerful.
5 I thought about the ram. While I was watching, I saw a male goat come from the west. It had one large horn that was easy to see. It ran so fast its feet barely touched the ground.
6 The goat came to the ram with the two horns. (This was the ram I had seen standing by the Ulai River.) The goat was very angry and ran at the ram. 7 As I watched, the goat ran at the ram and broke both of the ram’s horns. The ram could not stop the goat. The goat knocked it to the ground and walked all over it. There was no one to save the ram from the goat. 8 So the goat became very powerful. But after he became strong, his big horn broke off. Then four horns grew in place of the one big horn. Those four horns were easy to see. They pointed in four different directions.
9 Then a little horn grew from one of those four horns. It grew and became very big. It grew toward the southeast, toward the Beautiful Land. 10 The little horn became very big. It grew until it reached the sky. It even threw some of Heaven’s hosts and some of the stars to the ground and trampled them. 11 That little horn became very strong, and it even exalted itself above the Ruler of Heaven’s host. It stopped the continual daily sacrifices that were offered to the Ruler. And the set-apart place where people served the Ruler was pulled down. 12 Because of this sin, the continual daily sacrifices were stopped. Truth was thrown down to the ground. The little horn did all these things and was very successful.
13 Then I heard two set-apart Angels speaking. One of them asked the other, “How long will the things in this vision last—the stopping of the continual daily sacrifices, the sin that lays waste and destroys, and the trampling down of the set-apart place and Heaven’s host?”
14 The other set-apart Angel said, “This will last for 2300 evenings and mornings. Then that which is set-apart will be made right.”
(1150 DAYS OF EVENING AND MORNING SACRIFICES)
(DEFILING THE TEMPLE WITH ABOMINABLE BEHAVIOUR)
15 I, Daniel, saw this vision and tried to understand what it meant. While I was thinking about it, someone who looked like a mighty man suddenly stood in front of me. 16 Then I heard a man’s voice coming from above the Ulai River. The voice called out, “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”
17 So Gabriel, the Angel who looked like a man, came to me. I was very afraid and fell down to the ground. But Gabriel said to me, “Son of man (human being) understand that this vision is about the time of the end.”
18 While Gabriel was speaking, I fell to the ground completely stunned, but Gabriel touched me and lifted me to my feet again. 19 He said, “Now, I’ll explain the vision to you and tell you what will happen in the future. Your vision was about the end times you know! The time of wrath!
20 You saw a ram with two horns. The horns are the countries of Media and Persia. (THE RAM WAS THE COMMONLY RECOGNISED FORM OF PERSIA’S GUARDIAN SPIRIT).
21 The goat is the King of Greece. The big horn between its eyes is the first King (ALEXANDER THE GREAT). 22 That horn broke off and four horns grew in its place. The four horns are four Kingdoms/Empires. Those four Kingdoms will come from the nation of the first King, but they will not be as strong as the first King.
23 When the end is near for those Kingdoms, and the disobedient have done all there is to do, there will be a very fierce, cruel and cunning King. 24 This King will be very powerful, but his power does not come from himself. This King will cause terrible destruction. He will be successful in everything he does. He will destroy powerful people and even set-apart people. ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANIES - (LITTLE GREEK HORN)
25 This King will be very smart and tricky. He will use his wisdom and lies make deceit prosper. He will think that he’s very important and destroy many people, when they least expect it. He will even try to fight the Prince of Princes. But that cruel King’s power will be destroyed, and it will not be a human hand that destroys him.
ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANIES DIDN'T DIE IN BATTLE OR BY ASSASSINATION BUT RATHER BY DISEASE.
26 What I said and the vision about those times are true. But seal up the vision, because those things will not happen for a long, long time.”
27 Then I, Daniel, became very weak and was sick for several days after this vision. Then I got up and went back to work for the King, but I was very upset about the vision, for I didn’t understand what it meant.
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