No animal could stand against him, and none could rescue from his power. I watched the ram as he charged toward the west and the north and the south. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later. I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal. The two horned ram versus the shaggy goatÄaniel 8:1-8 In the third year of King Belshazzar's reign, I, Daniel, had a vision, after the one that had already appeared to me. This study then will look at what God has declared about these two world empires, but more importantly it will focus on a particular character mentioned at the end of the chapter whose ultimate fulfilment is still to come! Well, no man can but God does over and over again in His word and He reveals it to His servants so that we can test whether He truly is God! This is one of those chapters that critics say must have been written after the event! 'No one can declare what is to come' they say. Whereas chapter 7 focuses predominantly on the Roman empire and it's form in the last days leading up to the return of Jesus, this chapter focuses on the kingdoms of Medo-Persia and Greece. In this chapter, two of those kingdoms are discussed in more detail. We saw in Daniel chapter 7 that God gave Daniel a vision of the four coming world empires.
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