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The Book of Daniel: ”Enemy Territory”

Unshaken Saints

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Antiochus Epiphanes, I'm the Epiphany

In Daniel's Bible, a ram has two horns - one for media and the other for Persia. With these horns, this mighty ram is pushing away all the other animals in every direction. Until that is, a he-goat comes along and defeats the ram. So what king of the world superpower overcame the mids and the Persians? Ah, yes, that's Greece. Well, yeah, the greatest of all time. How about Alexander the goat as in Alexander the Great? But then the goat is replaced by four notable ones out of which emerges a little horn. That actually fits perfectly in terms of the intertestamental period. There are actually four generals at first, but then

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