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Daniel 8:5-14 (JDV)

Daniel 8:5 As I was observing, a male goat appeared, coming from the west across the surface of the entire land without touching the ground. The goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.
Daniel 8:6 He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with savage fury.
Daniel 8:7 I saw him approaching the ram, and going into a fit of rage against him. He struck the ram, breaking his two horns, and the ram was not strong enough to stand against him. The goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and there was no one to rescue the ram from his power.
Daniel 8:8 Then the male goat grew even more arrogant, but after he became powerful, the large horn was broken. Four conspicuous horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of the sky.
Daniel 8:9 From one of them a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.
Daniel 8:10 It grew as high as the sky army, made some of the army and some of the stars fall to the land, and trampled them.
Daniel 8:11 It acted arrogantly even against the Prince of the sky army; it revoked his regular sacrifice and overthrew the place of his sanctuary.
Daniel 8:12 In the rebellion, the army was given up, together with the regular sacrifice. The horn threw truth to the ground and was successful in what it did.
Daniel 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the speaker, “How long will the events of this vision last – the regular sacrifice, the rebellion that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and of the army to be trampled?”
Daniel 8:14 He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored.”

tested and found to be true

The first invasion of the Holy Land by Antiochus IV was on September 6th, 170 BC. The temple was cleansed and restored on December 25th, 164 BC. The prophecy was fulfilled exactly as his oppression of Israel took 2,300 literal days. The fact that this revelation is in the Hebrew section of Daniel also corresponds to the subject matter of the prophecy: the oppression of Israel under a Gentile king.

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