The Maccabean Revolt in the Second Half of the Book of Daniel

The prophecy in the second half of the book of Daniel starts in chapter seven with Daniel's dream. In both cases these heroes of the story are like, yeah, we're just not going to bend the knee to your false gods. The king is no God at all. There's only one king and his kingdom is going to go on forever. And so no, we just can't play along with this thing.