
Originally Posted by
randyk
I'm not sure how much your view of Dan 8 bears on this, but I *don't* believe Dan 8 is related to Dan 7! In fact, I suspect that if you get Dan 8 wrong, you will end up with a wrong view of Antichrist!
Dan 8 and 11 represent, for me, a view into the history of Antiochus 4 (among other things). Antiochus 4 is presented as a central figure, which may because he provides a foreshadow of Antichrist. However, Dan 7 specifically deals with Antichrist, and not Antiochus 4.
I find it personally important to separate, therefore, these two chapters of Daniel. This may be partly why we come to different conclusions?
Regardless, I don't have much more argument on why I think the 2 legs of the Great Statue are represented by Catholicism and Orthodoxy. They simply carry the imperial Roman tradition, for me, since imperial states carried, politically, these religious centers. I don't think, in this respect, the evolution of history would be anything other than what it has been, since God has predestined it.
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