Tag: Daniel

Abomination of Desolation, Little Horn

The Desolating Transgression

David R Maas

Next, Daniel receives a vision of a “ram” and a “goat.” The ram represents the kingdom of the “Medes and Persians,” and the goat the kingdom of Greece, beginning with its first great king who overthrew the “ram.” The vision is followed by an interpretation provided by an angelic figure.

The focus of the vision is on the figure represented by the “little horn,” a king who rules one of the four lesser kingdoms that appear after the death of the “great king” of Greece.

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Beast from the Sea, Little Horn

Mouth Speaking Great Things

David R Maas

In Revelation, the “little horn” is NOT explicitly named but its characteristics are present in the “Beast from the sea.” But the book does not retell the same story without changes. Instead, it modifies and repurposes it to tell ITS story. The “Beast” is based on Daniel’s “little horn,” but it also is something beyond it, and arguably, far worse.

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Abomination of Desolation, Little Horn, Short Season

Time, Times, and Half a Time

David R Maas

In the interpretation of his vision, Daniel receives the limits for the time allotted to the “little horn” – “Time, times, and part of a time.” After this, he loses his domain. The description is ambiguous but becomes clear in Daniel’s subsequent visions. And Revelation uses this cipher for the “short season” during which the “Dragon” is authorized to persecute the “saints.”

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Beast from the Sea, Four Beasts, Son of Man

On the Clouds

David R Maas

Key phrases from Daniel’s vision of the “four beasts ascending from the sea” occur in the New Testament, most often in contexts concerning the future arrival of Jesus, but also in passages about the kingdom of God and Christ’s sovereignty.

This is especially so in the book of Revelation. It builds its picture of the single “Beast from the sea” that persecutes the “saints” on Daniel’s vision of “four beasts” ascending from the sea.

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