Bible Prophecy Talk - End Times News and Theology Podcast · Chris White

A Study of the 7-Headed, 10-Horned Beast – Daniel 8 (Part 4) (rerun)

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He argues Daniel 8 uses Antiochus language that also points toward the Antichrist.

1. Bible Prophecy Talk centers this rerun on Daniel 8 and the "seven-headed, ten-horned beast" discussion tied to Revelation. 2. The host is the show's unnamed Bible prophecy teacher, and he points listeners to his other podcast, Vine Abiders, for non-prophecy Bible teaching. 3. The episode asks whether Daniel 8 supplies interpretive keys for Daniel 7 and the beast imagery in Revelation 12, 13, and 17. 4. The ram and goat in Daniel 8 are identified directly by the angel as Media and Persia and Greece. 5. The host says Daniel 8 matters because Daniel 7's lion, bear, leopard, and diverse beast are not named by nation in the text. 6. He argues that commentators often overread animal symbolism when they assign lions to Britain or bears to Russia. 7. He says the ram's two horns, with one higher and later, may help explain the bear in Daniel 7 being "raised up on one side." 8. He links the ram charging westward, northward, and southward to Medo-Persian conquest in three directions. 9. He says the goat moving "across the face of the whole earth" without touching the ground can suggest speed. 10. He connects the goat's breaking of the ram and the rise of four horns to Alexander's four generals and four successor kingdoms. 11. He argues that Daniel 8 confirms a traditional reading in which Greece corresponds to the leopard with wings and four heads in Daniel 7. 12. He reads the "little horn" as a transition into Antiochus-language that also resembles Antichrist-language. 13. He identifies Antiochus as a Seleucid ruler whose empire controlled Israel and whose actions culminated in the abomination of desolation. 14. He says the text's "out of one of them" language raises questions about whether the last-days ruler must come from one of the Greek successor kingdoms. 15. He notes that the passage mentions 2300 "evenings and mornings" rather than the word "days" in Hebrew. 16. He rejects simple day-year calculations and says the better reading may involve 2300 evening and morning sacrifices, or 1150 days. 17. He cites 1 Maccabees 1:54 and 4:52-53 to date Antiochus' idol in the temple and the later restoration of sacrifices. 18. He says the historical dates still leave a 45-day gap, which leads him to discuss calendar issues and a 360-day prophetic year. 19. The tone is analytical and argumentative, with long Scripture quotations, historical references, and repeated back-and-forth with commentary traditions. 20. Listeners interested in Daniel, Revelation, Antiochus Epiphanes, and prophetic calendars would likely want this episode, while listeners wanting a short devotional reading would probably skip it.

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A clear prophecy study that connects Daniel 8 with Revelation while working through Antiochus and the Antichrist.

This episode reads Daniel 8 as part of a larger case about the seven-headed, ten-horned beast, and it keeps circling the question of how Antiochus, the Antichrist, and Revelation might connect.

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