Daniel Chapter 8 Vs. 9

Daniel's Vision of the Ram and the Goat

Daniel 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]."


A little horn came out of one of the four horns. Out of one of these 4 divisions of the old Grecian Empire will come this little horn or future antichrist who will become great in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Palestine (11:40-45).

pleasant land... Palestine, Israel.

In 167 B.C. Antiochus outlawed the Jewish religion, burned Jerusalem, killed multitudes of Jews, and forbade circumcision and other Jewish observances, he was a type of antichrist. On December 16, 167 B.C., he offered a sow on the altar outside the temple, the ultimate sacrilege to a Jew. This began the period known as the Maccabean revolt.

After three years of fighting, the Jews were able to restore temple worship in late 164 B.C. This rededication of the temple is still commemorated today in the eight day Jewish holiday known as Hanukkah.

Out of one of the four horns came another horn. It had an insignificant beginning but it exerted power southward and eastward and toward the Beautiful Land, that is, the land of Israel.