Living in This Reign of Darkness: Part 3

The "little horn" rising up on the goat, came out of the Greek empire but then the focus and the spotlight of the chapter really is on that little horn, which is astonishing when you think about it.

I mean, if you read a history of the Greek empire, the little horn, the small horn that we're going to look at here is hardly referenced... because he's not that important from man's perspective as man looks at world history, world changing events.

Certainly not as important as Alexander the Great, who's talked about in this chapter but in a small way. He's not the focus here...

... the focus is the little horn that was actually a man who reigned from 175 to 163 BC, twelve years, a man named Antiochus Epiphanies. And though he's not significant from the world's perspective as one who made a great impact, he's very significant from God's perspective. And here we have the vision, we have the perspective of heaven looking at the events of the world.

And the reason he is so important is because of the spiritual power manifest in this little king... the evil, it's kind of an apex of evil... in this man's life.