6.2- Discussion of Daniel 8 verses 17- 23

>>> Verses 17-19: These verses talk about fear in the presence of the vision, which had to do not only with the ram and the goat, but primarily with the end of the world. The real understanding of the vision is not related to the temporary kingdoms of the ram and the goat, but to the end times, as it says in verse 19: “I am showing you what the result of God's anger will be. The vision refers to the time of the end”. The cause of the anger of God over all sin and, ungodliness are as mentioned in the following verses:

a) - verse 9: wars of the antichrist.

b) - verses10-12: rejection of any relation with the true God.

      (Ungodliness and occultism).

c) - verses 12 and 13: Desecration of the sanctuary.

d) – verse 12: People sinned instead of offering the proper daily

       sacrifices.

e) – verse 12: True religion was thrown to the ground. The lie is

       believed. See Rom. 1 verse 25: “They exchange the truth about

      God for a lie; they worship and serve what God has created

      instead of the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever”

f) – verse 24: He will cause terrible destruction….. on God's own

      people. Destruction in all aspects such as the environment, but

      also related to a degradation of the human values such as

      moral and ethics

g) – verse 25: It says: “He will even defy the greatest King of all” He

       will even compete against Jesus Christ. See also 1 John 2

       verse 18: “My children, the end is near! You were told that the

       Enemy of Christ would come; and now many enemies of Christ

       have already appeared, and so we know that the end is near”.

       But all these causes of the anger of God are at the same time

       the reason his downfall. See 2 Thessalonians 2

       verses 4 and 8: “He will oppose every so-called god or object of

       worship and will put himself above them all. He will even go in

       and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God…… Then

       the Wicked One will be revealed, but when the Lord Jesus

       comes, he will kill him with the breath from his mouth and

       destroy him with his dazzling presence”.

>>> Verses 20-23: This is the same as what was mentioned before under verses 4-9.  See the discussion under the verses 4-9 before.