Dan 11:4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
Yes. and why do we get Daniel 11s run-down of the Greek Lineage? And why does it run up until Antiochus (THE ARCH TYPE) via verses 21-33-maybe 34 and then give us the REAL Anti-Christ in verses 36-45? Because the Anti-Christ is born in Greece !! Which is in the E.U. and the Little Horn comes out of the Head of the Fourth Beast, he is NOT a part of the Fourth Beast, God loves His grand riddles, the Disciples/Us the Church are the only ones who can comprehend them, and sometimes even we can't get it until we are SO CLOSE unto it that it KNOCKS US DOWN, LOL... Like it did me one day. The Fourth Beast received a Mortal Wound, he is no more, but God gave us a wonderful riddle and its all about DNA !! When we have a child it looks like us right?
Because of DNA, likewise, the riddle about the Little Horn coming out of the Fourth Beast HAS NOTHING to do with the Fourth Beast carrying on for 2000 years, its all about the Little Horn, the actual 5th Beast, but really the 7th Beast Head as we know from Rev. 13, looking just like the Roman Empire on a MAP !! Go look at any old Map, Greece covered about half of the Mediterranean Coastline, Babylon and Persia far less of the Coastline, this Beast is coming out of THE SEA {Mediterranean Sea} thus Rome is shown to be more fierce than the other, in juxtaposition to the Mediterranean area that is being spoken of. The Little Horn will look exactly like him on a MAP, this he also must start out from Europe, and he can't conquer in Alexander's Direction {East} he must have all of Europe in his grasp, and then conquer South and around the WHOLE COASTLINE !! And the E.U. currently has deals in place with just these countries, 7-year deals !! All around the Mediterranean Sea Coast, from Lebanon to Tunisia and all points in between, of course From Gibraltar and Spain that is already in Europe.
Let's look at the context a little more, and see that Pagan Rome is the answer, and fits all of the context.
OK, you are starting down a Dead End here, but In will play along for a bit. Because I got a feeling we are headed to the ole RCC is the Pagan Beast, but we will see soon, I am on a journey to find out.
Dan 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.Dan 8:10
We are STRETCHING HERE, trying to say Antiochus didn't plunder the Holy Land to try and prove a point is stretching, he WAS NOT the Beast, but he was the ARCH TYPE !! God didn't give us him as a TYPE for no reason. He did very similar things.
This "little horn", and both it's phases ([1] ":
Antiochus basically wasn't even a Beast Kingdom in the area, he was pretty much a man at the mercy of Rome at this time, but what he did in Jerusalem makes him the ARCH TYPE.
Dan 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Daniel 8:23 is the parallel to Daniel 8:9-11.
This is true, but its END TIME EVENTS staring in verse 9. Some of Gabriel's interpretation covers BOTH timelines also, just like 8 and 9.
We know this, as Daniel 8:12 is immediately parallel to Daniel 8:24, as it uses the same language:
Dan 8:12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.Dan 8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
A "king" is not merely a single individual in Daniel, but is also identified in Daniel 7 as "beasts" (political kingdoms, nation states):
Dan 7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.Thus in Daniel 2, we have:
I agree with all this, as long as you don't try to slip in the RCC, that is where I feared you were going, I have a sense of these things. I have seen too many people and their arguments over 35 years, thus I have an innate ability to spot trends, LOL. We'll see. You see what tips me off is you are calling it Pagan Rome, when they were ALL pagan, but you don't call them such, because, IMHO, I see the RCC argument coming up, We'll see shortly !!
No one gets the 5th Beast here, its the Little Horn in the End Times !!
The second phase of this "king" is stated as, "understanding dark sentences". This is tied to understanding of scripture, and parables, a religio-political power of the same nation:
#2420 חִידָה chiydah {khee-daw'}
from
H2330; TWOT - 616a; n f
—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)
1) riddle, difficult question, parable,
enigmatic saying or question,
perplexing saying or question
1a) riddle
(dark obscure utterance)
1b) riddle, enigma (to be guessed)
1c) perplexing questions (difficult)
1d)
double dealing (with 'havin')
—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)
From
H2330; a
puzzle; hence a
trick,
conundrum, sententious
maxim:—dark saying (sentence, speech), hard question, proverb, riddle.
We don't have to get TOO DEEP here, he gets his POWER by Satan, verse 24 says so, AND his power shall be MIGHTY, but not by his OWN POWER !! So the Dark Sentences means he has DARK POWERS/Black Majic so to speak. Rev. 13:2 basically says the same thing.
Rev. 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and
the dragon gave him his POWER, and his seat, and great authority.
Thus, we tie the second phase of the "little horn" of Daniel 8, right back to the several phases of the 4th beast, and specifically to its "little horn" thereof.
We tie him to the END TIME Anti-Christ of Rev. 13 brother. Which is the Little Horn who ARISES out of the E.U. to look like his Papa did on a Map. He covers the exact same Landmass !!
Now we need to move back and consider the other verses also, such as:
Dan 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
"How long the vision ..."
This question is extremely important to understanding vs 14. Vs 13, asks "How long the vision ...", and the vision itself, begins with the "Ram" (Daniel 8:3), which we all agreed was Medio-Persian (Daniel 8:20). Thus the "How long" includes some timeframe in this kingdom, and last through the He-goat (Daniel 8:5), which we all agreed was Greecia (Daniel 8:21), through unto Greecia's division into 4 (Daniel 8:8,22; Daniel 11:3-19), and beyond into this "little horn['s]" phases.
The answer that the 2,300 is merely normal days is absolutely removed as an option. The "daily" of the Temple was restored in the Medo-Persian Kingdom, see Ezra 6:14; Daniel 9:25, not the Greecian, and the "daily" was not taken away in the Greecian, but was completely removed in the Roman period.
Type and antitype must match.
Natural Israel (after the flesh), in Natural Jerusalem, with the Natural "daily" is "taken away" completely by Natural Babylon.
Spiritual Israel (after the Spirit), in spiritual Jerusalem (above, names written in Heaven, and there by faith), with the spiritual "daily" is completely "taken away" by spiritual Babylon, it is replaced with the "in the place of" (anti) system.
Since this VISION is about the End Time Anti-Christ starting in verse 9, and this is verse 13, then the question is HOW LONG shall the AoD last during the end times. The Answer is 1150 days because its 2300 Evening and Morning Sacrifices.
Even historically, we can go to the so called 'ECF' and see a general agreement of 'years':
I skipped answering the rest because you are overanalyzing brother. Its END TIME EVENTS after verse 4. what are you trying to prove? You are answering your own posts, but you still haven't got to an answer after all those posts. BE CONCISE, LOL. I can't go any further because you are on another page....