The He-Goat From The West – Daniel 8:1-4, 5-6
[he goat come from the west] The acknowledged symbol of Greece.
Caranus, the first king going with many Greeks to seek a new habitation in Macedonia, was advised by
an oracle to take goats for guides. Seeing a herd fleeing from a storm, he followed them to Edessa and there built the seat of his empire. He called the place Aegea, the goats' town and the people Aegeadae, the goats' people, names derived from aigeos (GSN-<G122>), goat. He chose a goat as the emblem on his standards.
Aegea was the burying place of Macedonian kings. Alexander called his son by Roxana, lexander Aegus -- Alexander the goat.
1. The Goat represents the Grecian Empire under Alexander the Great
2. In Daniel 2 Grecian Empire was the “belly and thighs of brass”
3. In Daniel’s First vision of Daniel 7 it was seen as a “leopard with four wings, and four heads”
4. In Daniel 8 – it’s seen as the HE GOAT
5. Up to this time the view of the world was Oriental, Persian; for the first time in world history in this vision Western Civilization comes into view
6. This takes place 200 years from the time of Daniel
7. The HE GOAT was the actual symbol of Greece at time (Cranus)
8. “THE WHOLE EARTH” – part of a whole; other empires existed but only as this one affects ISRAEL is the Holy Spirit through Daniel concerned about
9. The power structure would shift from East to West and has remained ever since (JAPAN, 1941, Islam since 1979)
10. The Antichrist will comes from the EAST!
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