The acts of the little horn representing antiochus, as seen in vision, began with his attack on the pleasant land daniel 8. Apocalypse revelation of a mystery is not the same as eschatology the study of final things, though there may be an overlap. The vision, the eighth chapter, begins, and that, the tenth through twelfth chapters. Daniel s prayer, and the vision of the seventy weeks 9. This study guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of daniel s story. A study of the book of daniel the church of christ in. Daniel 8 commentary, one of over 110 bible commentaries freely available, this commentary, by the leading authority in the church of christ, presents a verse level look at the bible. While the first chapters of daniel have a more gentile orientation and flavor, chapter 8 turns to a more jewish emphasis. This chapter contains daniel s vision of the ram and hegoat, daniel 8. The chapter concludes with the distress of daniel on account of the fearful judgments with which his country should be visited in after ages, daniel 8. In this chapter, two of those kingdoms are discussed in more detail.
Porphyry claimed that instead of being written by daniel about b. Daniel 8 commentary matthew henry commentary on the. Commentaries which would help in your study are the prophecy of daniel by edward j. We saw in daniel chapter 7 that god gave daniel a vision of the four coming world empires. He ends up taking back the cream of the crop, the most elite and noble israelites, to serve at his court in babylon. As was the case with the previous vision, daniel didnt fully understand the significance of what he was seeing daniel 7. He is speaking in the first all through chapter 8 the first person singular pronoun. The little horn mentioned in the ninth verse, or fierce king, as interpreted in the twentythird, is supposed by some to denote antiochus epiphanes. Antichrist, like christ, has a more immediate future, as well as one more remote. Roy gingrich has carefully analyzed the main prophetic segments of the book of daniel daniel, chapters 2, 7, 8, 9, 1012. And i heard a mans voice from the ulai calling, gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision. The book of daniel chapter 8 the king of fierce countenance. For more complete chart see tony garlands book of daniel. Thus, daniel 8 begins a new division of the book of daniel.
An introduction to daniel chapter 1 in this first chapter of the book of daniel, one of the most intense prophetic books of the old testament, we are introduced to several new names, including four hebrew men who have been taken into exile in babylonian captivity. Verse 20 of this chapter tells us the two horns are the kings of media and persia. This was just two years after daniel s vision of four beasts and a little horn recorded in daniel 7. The only thing that was not interpreted for him was chapter 8. With this chapter the hebrew part of the book begins and continues to be the language of the remainder. Daniel 1 new international version niv daniel s training in babylon. Understanding daniel chapter 8 a better way to live youtube. The vision recorded in daniel 8 came to the prophet in the third year of the reign of king belshazzar of babylon 553554 b. Daniels vision ends here, but its impact on him does not end. The consternation that daniel was in upon the approach of his instructor daniel 8. Whatever they called him, he still held fast the spirit of an israelite. The vision of chapter 8 came two years after that of chapter 7. Shushan was a chief city of the medopersian empire. The book of daniel begins with king nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of babylon, ransacking jerusalem.
Daniel 8 commentary commentary critical and explanatory. Daniel 812 niv daniels vision of a ram and a goat bible gateway. May the spirit of god reveal the meaning of this prophecy to us and produce in us that. The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation dr devra davis duration. Daniel was but a boy at the date of the captivity, and little more at the time of the attempt to make a chaldean of him. The visions and prophecies of this chapter look only and entirely at the events that were then shortly to come to pass in the monarchies of persia and greece, and seem not to. There is a strong enmity between the greeks christian orthodox and the turks muslims that goes back to the conquest of constantinople istanbul and the rise of the ottoman empire.
Daniels fainting and astonishment at the prospect of evils he saw coming on his people and the church, confirm the opinion that longcontinued calamities were foretold. These youths scrupled concerning the meat, lest it should be sinful. Daniel chapter 8 explained discover the 66 books of the. Keil, biblical commentary on the book of daniel, p. A proper understanding of daniel, chapters 2 and 7, and of daniel 9. Daniel s earnest desire to have this vision explained to him v. Such language is very extravagant, after the manner of prophecy. Daniel 1 commentary verse by verse commentary bible study. Though sometimes assumed to contain end time prophecies, daniel 8 was completely fulfilled during the greek empire from the fourth to the second century b. This chapter stands as the irrefutable example of genuine predictive prophecy at its most excellent achievement.
Daniel 8 daniels vision of a ram and a goat bible gateway. Book of daniel chapter 8 bible study declaring the end. The chapter ends with daniel telling us that this vision left him exhausted and physically ill. Like the other videos before this one, much of the video is filled with illustrations of daniel, the angel gabriel, the ram and the goat, alexander the. The last verse says that he continued even unto the first year of king cyrus, the date given elsewhere as the close of the captivity 2 chronicles 36. The goats large horn is then broken into four horns, followed by a little horn that brings desolation to the sanctuary and the host of heaven 114. Verse 1 in the third year of the reign of belshazzar we now come once more to the hebrew, the chaldee part of the book being finished. Daniel 8, new international version niv the bible app.
Apocalypse is actually a unifying theme daniel s ability to interpret a dream that nebuchadnezzar had forgotten is apocalyptic. Note, those that rightly know the things of god cannot but desire to know more and more of them, and to be led further into the mystery of them. The insolence of antiochus was a wickedness against heaven, and the heavenly order of things. The prophet daniel had two years to think about the visions of the 4 beasts of chapter 7 compare 7. In the following commentary on daniel 8, the reader is given an understanding of the fulfillment of daniel 8. The word translated grecia in the book of daniel is the name yavan javan, the name of a son of joktan, and of the race ionians, i. The phrase son of man is retained as a form of address here because of its possible association with son of man in the new testament. These he carried off to the temple of his god in babylonia and put in the. Its interesting that the visions of chapter 8 were given before the handwriting on the wall in chapter 5. As with all of scripture, the book of daniel is profitable for our study 2 ti 3.
If that were really the case, then how can we explain the profound impact its contents. The scene here narrows from worldwide prophecies to those affecting the one covenantpeople in the five centuries. The angel gabriel tells daniel this goat represents the kingdom of greece and its large horn is its first king, which would be shown by later history to be alexander the great daniel 8. Daniel 8 commentary james burton coffman commentaries on. Young and the volume on daniel in the commentary on the old.
The book of daniel chapter eight in the third year of king belshazzar 550 b. The book of daniel is unsealing middle east and prophecy. Antiochus makes the compact with many, the fallen jews v. Though daniel was a man of great prudence and courage, and had been conversant with the visions of the almighty, yet the approach of an. The book of daniel no other book in the bible has been attacked like the book of daniel. Book of daniel bible study chapter 8 gods declaration of the end. Next chapter of daniel the book of daniel, chapter 8 we hope that you find the content of the book of daniel, chapter 8 from the douay rheims version of the catholic bible helpful to your bible studies and for references which allow you to read the books and individual verses of this chapter.