Antiochus IV (Daniel 8:15ff)

Truth Encounter: Living in the Lion's Den - Daniel Series

All it takes is three numbers 666 in a movie title and you’ve got a blockbuster. The mention of Antichrist conjures up foreboding visions of an ultimate, arrogant, violent tyrant, and in my own life time everyone from JFK to Krushchev and others were identified as this Man of Sin. A little less than 200 years before Jesus an Old Testament Antichrist already strutted across the pages of history. Daniel 8 spends only a few lines to describe the entire career of Alexander the Great but many verses to focus our attention on this little known Syrian. What does Daniel teach us about persevering through times when it seems as if God has disappeared from our history and it looks like evil is going to win?