Memory verse: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:10 This should be our prayer each day. We will be looking at Daniel 8 in this lesson. Daniel 8 covers the same historical time as did Daniel 2 and 7. We will learn in this chapter about God’s sanctuary. How it was a power that defiles and threatens it. Daniel 8 says, the sanctuary was to be cleansed and restored. We are again studying history and nations as well as movements, not people. We need to remember that no matter what the movement, that all have the right to come to the Bible truth. Through the study of God’s word. We can all know the right way to heaven. This chapter is the third outline of world history but this time we start with Medo-Persia and we will find more detail and more on the time prophecy we had in Lesson 10. Read chapter 8 All the way through before you start. 1. Daniel is now in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar and he has another vision, what beast did he see? How many horns? Daniel 8:3 “Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a _________ which had _______ horns: and the two horns were high; but one was ___________ than the other, and the ________ came up ____________.“ 2. What did the ram represent? Daniel 8:20 “The ______ which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of________ and _________.“ See Daniel 8:15. This is the same nation as the bear, remember is raised it’s self up on one side. It was also the two arms of the great image. The two horns of the ram indicate two nations. Darius the Median was the king when they took Babylon. Daniel 5:31. But under Cyrus the Great of Persia became the stronger force in the dual kingdom. The higher comes up last Darius was not on the throne long and Cyrus took over. 3. The kingdom of Media-Persia did as it was predicted in prophecy. They extended their empire. It did not go any farther eastward. Daniel 8:4 “I saw the _______ pushing _________, and __________ and _____________; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.” 4. Daniel sees another beast come in his vision. What was this beast? Which way did it come? Daniel 8:5 “And as I was considering, behold, an he ___________ came from the __________ on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.” 5. This goat had notable horn between his eyes. What did this beast represent? Daniel 8:21 “And the ________ ______ is the king of: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.” We learned that Daniel 2 that the belly and thighs of brass was the third kingdom (Daniel 2:32, 39) and it was to be divided. It also was represented as a leopard with four heads in Daniel 7:6. Alexander the Great represented as the notable horn, between the eyes of the goat. With swiftness he came across Asia and Persia with destroying force. The history of Alexander the Great (leader of Greece) came with tremendous speed referred to in our text “touched not the ground.” Remember the leopard had not only four heads but four wings – wings denote swiftness. With which Alexander conquered the media-Persian kingdom. In 331 B.C. as prophecy predicted the Greeks came from the west. In eight years Alexander conquered Asia Minor, Syria, Phoenicia, Cyprus, Egypt, Babylonia, Persia and part of India, with amazing speed. 6. 1n Daniel 8:5-7 we see that the ram (Media Persia with two horns was hit by the goat with a notable horn. The goat smote the ram and broke of his two horns. Casting him to the ground but what would happen to the horn between the eyes” Daniel 8:8 “Therefore the he _________ _________ __________ ________,the ________ ________ was ________ ones toward the four winds of heaven.” Read verse 21 Alexander had now conquered all the then known world, this was 323 B.C. Just eight years. But at the age of 32 Alexander dies “the great horn” was broken, he had no son to take over his leadership. ________ ________ very _________: and when he was ___________ and for it came up four notable __________.”We see in Daniel 8:8 (last part) “and for it _________ _____ _______ _________________ toward the four winds of heaven.” That out of the great horn that was broken, we see four horns that come up. Daniel 8:22 “Now that being broken, whereas ________ _________ ______ for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.” The four horns that came up represent four generals and their kingdoms. Greece was divided after the death of Alexander. His four of his four of his generals ruled after his death. General Lysimerchus took the north. General Ptolemy took the south. General Cassander clamed Macedonia, Thessaly and Greece which would have been the west. General Seleucus took the eastern part of the original kingdom of Alexander. History does show that the Bible prophecy was fulfilled as it was stated. Greece had four heads and four wings in Daniel 7:6 here in Daniel 8:8 it has four horns. 8. Daniel now sees something else; out of one of these four horns a little horn came forth. Daniel 8:9 “And ____ of ___________ of them came forth a _________ _______, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.” Note: this section was found 5 months after the death of the lesson writer and editor, I went on the internet and added later this is a supplement to the story, because the question was how does the horn come up out of one of the four horns? And I hand to go back in history and find the answer this was the search from public archives on-line today. The Trojan War was waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy (Illium), located in Asia Minor (modern Turkey), by the armies of the Achaeans (Mycenaean Greeks), after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology, and was narrated in many works of Greek literature. The two most famous works are the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer. The Iliad relates a part of the tenth and last year of the siege of Troy, while the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the Achaean leaders. The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest". The goddesses went to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans mercilessly slaughtered the Trojans and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to Italy. Ancient Greeks thought the Trojan War to be a historical event. They believed that it took place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and that Troy was located in the vicinity of the Dardanelles, which is in modern day Turkey. By modern times both the war and the city were widely believed to be non-historical. The ruins of the city were discovered and are now know to be a real place found along the waters of the Asia Minor. The ruins still remain and the tails of troy are fact. (The problem is how to separate Greek myth from actual facts. The heroes of Greek were turned into gods and were not always factual but fantastic in tail. The Greeks were known for embellishing the story and The Trojan Horse is fact that one can not tell always a good thing by what is devised inside. The inside of the horse was hiding a small number of soldiers, who opened the gate after dark and the city was destroyed and so was the larger part of the men of the city. ) Amulius and Numitor, two of the descendants of fugitives from Troy, received the throne of Alba Longa upon their father’s death. Numitor received the sovereign powers as his birthright (The grandfather of Romulus and Remus' Numitor) while Amulius received the royal treasury, including the gold Aeneas brought with him from Troy. You ask the question what does Greek Myth and Facts have to do with this lesson? Good question. The answer is out of Macedonia the western horn of Greek empire, came the new horn called pagan Rome. Julius Caesar was a descendant of the Macedonian empire. He was said to be the descendant of Illium which is the ancient city of troy. Caesar was probably born in 100 BC (although some historians favour 102 BC) into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus. This horn was Pagan in nature, and from the wisdom of the Greeks philosophers comes the worship of many gods into Pagan Rome. the ancient Romans changed the of the names of the Greek gods of nature (sun, moon, and stars) with attitudes to create the Roman gods of nature, sun, moon and stars with warlike human feelings and emotions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/troy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/macedonia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassander

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