The Clash Of Kingdoms — Keith Malcomson

The Clash of Kingdoms and the Rule of Heaven

Ben. Praise God, we're turning to Daniel chapter 8 tonight in our Bible study, the heavens do reign. I'm absolutely persuaded that this subject of the heavens do rule are vital for all believers everywhere in this hour and generation.

What's happening in society, politics, and in all around us in the economy. This is an hour where we must be gripped by the biblical truth that the heavens do rule. That's not a mere doctrine or theory, that is a practical reality.

And this series, I believe it's in the time and in the will of God for us as a church to be gripped with an overwhelming sense of the sovereign plan of God. We are here in the will of God, we are together in the will of God.

This church was placed here for this hour, I've got no doubt about it. And although our world has almost 8 billion people in it, and although it seems that we are far from having an influence on all that happens in our world, I want to tell you, a church on its knees has great power and sway in our world.

But above all else, I want us to see that we are the apple of the eye of our God. Reading from Daniel chapter 8 here tonight, and my message from Daniel chapter 8, and this is my title, The Clash of Kingdoms.

The Clash of Kingdoms, and surely we have come to a vital hour where there is a clash of kingdoms. There's going to be a radical change in our world very soon. We're living in the beginnings of it, and I believe Daniel chapter 8 will turn our eyes upon the Lord as we see nations change before our eyes, as we see one politician be removed and another raised up, as we begin to see a climatic change the like of which none of us imagine.

I believe that we've got to see that the heavens rule amidst the clash of kingdoms. Reading from Daniel chapter 8 here tonight, in this vital Bible study, Daniel chapter 8, reading from verse 1, in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared unto me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first, and I saw a vision, and it came to pass when I was, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam, and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river Eulay.

Then I lifted up mine eyes and saw, and behold, and there stood before the river a ram which had two horns, and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

I saw the ram rushing westwards, and northwards, and southwards, so that no beast might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will, and became great, and as I was considering, behold, and he goat came up from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground, and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes, and he came to the ram that had two horns, which had been standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power, and I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with colour against him, and he smote the ram, and he break the two horns, and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, and he cast him down to the ground, and he stamped upon him, and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand, therefore the he goat waxed great, and when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and for it came up four notable ones towards the four winds of heaven, and out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great towards the south, towards the east, and towards the pleasant land, and it waxed great even to the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host, and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them, yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down, and a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground, and it practiced, and it prospered, then I heard one saint speaking, and another said unto that certain saint which speak, how long shall a vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot, and he said unto me, unto 2 ,300 days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Here tonight we're not reading all of this chapter, you've read it before you came into this Bible study, but I am going to preach from this entire chapter tonight. Will you pray with me tonight that God would help us in this very serious hour that we're living in.

Heavenly Father we pray for your grace, and your mercy as a church, and we pray for all of those those preachers, those Christians, and other nations that listen to us even afterwards in the weeks to come.

Father we pray for your church in this hour. We are right at the beginning of the clash of nations in a remarkable way. Lord God we are seeing the beginning of violent, and of days of turmoil, and Father I pray that you'd give your church a sense of divine providence.

Lord God that you'd open our eyes to see, you'd open our hearts to believe, you'd open our ears to hear, that you are in control, that the heavens do rule. Lord God that no matter what happens in politics, or nations, or in around us, whether we're popular, or whether we're despised, whether we're listened to, or whether we're rejected, Lord God that the heavens do rule, and even in the darkest of days, the most evil of days, you have a plan for your church, your remnant, and your people.

My God grip us with the reality that amidst the clash of nations, that you're even working in that, and using it to bring forth a plan that's going to spread the gospel to every nation, to every people, and to every language.

We are looking for an outpouring of your Holy Spirit, and an engathering of a harvest of souls, that out of this clash of nations, out of this clash of kingdoms, that's before us, that we are going to have faith, that you're going to reach many souls, in Jesus mighty name.

Amen. Amen. Praise God. We're coming to our Bible study in Daniel chapter 8 tonight, and my message is the clash of kingdoms. In Daniel chapter 8, we find now that Daniel is in his late 60s, or maybe just into his early 70s.

Daniel’s Solitude During Babylon’s Decline

You'll remember that this is a time period where Belshazzar is on the throne of Israel. We're told in Daniel chapter 8 and verse 1, in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, this is at the end of the Babylonian kingdom, reigning for a period of 70 years, and here we have Daniel, who is under the last king of Babylon, of the Babylonian empire.

Here he is, and in this hour, he was actually set aside. He lost his position in politics. He lost his position to influence. He no longer had a voice in the throne room, or the palace room. He was without influence with his words and his actions.

He could do very little within the kingdom, or the politics, or the legislation of that hour. If you remember when we dealt with Babylon's last night, dealing with Belshazzar's feast, we literally see here this is at the early stage of Belshazzar's reign, whereas chapter 5 was at the very last night of Belshazzar's reign, and as I said, chapter 1 to chapter 6 is done in order.

Chapter 6 is the latest bit of history in Daniel's life, but from chapter 7 to chapter 12, these are now prophecies and visions that get inserted to the first six chapters in certain sets places. So we see that Daniel 8 comes before Daniel chapter 5, and in fact, some Bible teachers believe that Daniel 8 is 12 years before Belshazzar's last night of life, but look at this King Belshazzar of Babylon.

He knows nothing about Daniel, this great man of God. Daniel has been set on the shelf. Daniel is being ignored. Daniel doesn't even have access anymore. It is an hour of decadence. It is an hour of corruption politically, socially, morally, and religiously.

He's watching the entire kingdom that he loves and he has prayed for for all of these years begin to decay in a terrible way. The people hated the monarchy. There was an economic crisis as well, and look at Daniel, the events of his life.

God had worked in all of this to set Daniel aside into a place of utter solitude, but he wasn't out of the will of God. He wasn't in the eye of man, but he was exactly where God wanted him. God had allowed the king to ignore him, to shelf him, to set him aside, to be out of the place of busyness and of politics, and do you know what?

That's where God wanted him. Do you realize in his late 60s and early 70s, throughout the 70s, God revealed remarkable visions. We have four visions here in Daniel that God revealed to him, but do you know it all began in a time of solitude?

Oh, that the church of the past year, in the midst of its solitude, of lockdowns, of a change in family, in church, in work, in national life. Oh, that out of this solitude, out of this hour, that God would begin to speak to prophets again in the church.

I'm sick to death of false prophets holding the limelight. Oh, that God in this hour, amidst the clash of kingdoms, would speak to a prophet and raise up prophets again who know what is happening, what God is saying, and what is happening in the nations of our world.

You know, God does use solitude and he uses the events of life. You may not understand them, and yet God is actually using them. We're dealing tonight with the clash of kingdoms in Daniel chapter 8. It says, in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared unto me.

Daniel, a vision. In other words, he is awake and God gives him an open vision. When his eyes are open and his mind is fully conscious, God opens his eyes to see something in this third hour of Belshazzar's reign.

It is getting very close to the entire end of an entire empire. 70 long years and we're getting very close to the end. You know what God does? God speaks to a prophet. God will do nothing but that he will show it to his prophets first.

I believe that with all my heart. God still has prophets, men who see in the church of this day and generation. A vision appeared unto me, Daniel, after the witch unto me at the first. And I saw in a vision and it came to pass when I saw that I was at Shushan in the palace.

Notice here he is in Babylon under the reign of Belshazzar. Yet in this vision, he gets caught up in a vision. He gets carried 300 miles to the east to a place called Shushan. And he in this vision, he is standing in the palace at Shushan in the province of Elam.

This is a remarkable thing. Do you realize that this palace and this city had been destroyed? Do you realize that it was yet in the years ahead going to be raised up and become the headquarters for Cyrus the Great?

But not yet. Daniel could not have known that Shushan was going to become the second palace to the Medo-Persian empire. It was going to be there in that position for 200 years. Do you remember the book of Esther and the story of Esther?

It happens at the palace in Shushan. Do you remember Nehemiah the cupbearer who is sent back to Jerusalem with men to begin rebuilding the walls? Do you know where he was a cupbearer? In the palace in Shushan.

Now this is before the palace gets rebuilt. It's before it becomes the headquarters or the capital of an entire empire. Daniel is in a vision. And in this vision, he is in the royal palace. And as he is in the royal palace, God begins to show him something.

In fact, he's about to reveal a new empire, a new kingdom, and all that is going to happen here. God in this vision, he is now a certain period of time. He is some 12 years away from an empire called the Medo-Persian empire taking power and making Shushan and Babylon its headquarters.

And it will reign for 200 years. And do you know what? He is there in that palace and God begins to speak to him, not about the beginning of the Medo-Persian empire, but 200 years later when he's going to bring it to an end.

Do you hear what I'm saying tonight? This is a remarkable vision we're reading about. The Medo-Persian empire hasn't risen yet. It hasn't gained power. It hasn't established its two capitals. And yet God takes this man of God, this prophet, to the palace of the headquarters that is going to be in place for 200 years.

And he shows him how that empire is going to come to an end. I hope you find this staggering. The book of Daniel is staggering. Bible prophecy is staggering. This is our Bible that tells us about salvation in Christ, that tells us Jesus is coming back again.

It reveals all of history. No religious book is like this book. No book on the face of the planet, no history book, no archaeological book, no prophetic book even comes close to it. It is an utterly unique book that tells the history before it happens, the rise and the fall of empires, of their leaders, of how world events are going to go.

Saint, this is the God who speaks to us. This is the God speaking to us in this year amidst the clash of kingdoms. I want you to be gripped by a God who says, I was here before it happened. I'll be here after it happens.

And all those who do the will of God shall abide and dwell with me eternally. Oh, that we have eyes open to see that our God is the God of history. He is the God of prophecy. He is the God of salvation.

And he is reigning supreme. The heavens do rule. Let me bring you to my message tonight. And my first point here is the interpretation of Bible prophecy. The interpretation of Bible prophecy. Here Daniel is showing a vision of a ram and a goat and of certain events that happen, which we're going to go to tonight.

Seeking God’s Interpretation of Prophecy

But notice how he interprets it. I am, I'm sick to death of a lot of things. And here's another one to add to the list. I am sick to death of people with their own interpretation of Bible prophecy. Do you know what I wish?

That a man wouldn't teach or preach something about Bible prophecy until he has meditated on it for 25 years, until he has studied, lay on his face, went to bed, thinking about it late into the night.

For the key to Bible interpretation is to be humble and to seek the face of God. Look at verse 15 in this chapter, and we begin to see a central truth concerning Bible interpretation. And do you know what it is?

You do not decide what a horn or a head is or a beast is. You do not interpret it out of your own mind and your own intellect. Do you know what? You need God to teach you interpretation. And this vision in this chapter is interpreted by God himself.

Read with me in verse 15. And it came to pass when I, even I, Daniel, had seen the vision and sought for the meaning. Notice here, he sees a vision. What does he do? When you see a vision, what did Daniel start doing?

He sought for the meaning. I believe he began to pray. I believe he began to study scripture. I believe he began to wait upon God. I believe he made sure his heart was right. That's how you seek for the meaning of Bible prophecy or things revealed from God.

It says, then behold, there stood before me the appearance of a man. And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulay, which called and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. Do you see here, seeing the vision was not enough.

Now he had to go and seek the Lord. And now God himself commands the angel Gabriel to make Daniel understand the vision. He could not understand it by himself. It took divine revelation, not only to see the vision, but to understand it or to put it all in its right place.

God commands Gabriel. Do you notice Gabriel looks like a man and he stands before him and it is God instructing all this. Verse 17, so he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was afraid. I get sick to death of these people.

They laugh about angels dancing. Most of you haven't heard that, but I've been in meetings, those crazy charismatics, they begin to laugh. They're looking at things, not there. You know what they're seeing nothing.

Daniel was afraid when he seen a real angel, there was a great awesomeness and fear of God. If an angel appears to you, I assure you, you're going to tremble. It says he fell upon his face and he Gabriel said unto me, understand, O son of man, for at the time of the end shall be the vision.

Look at the angel Gabriel speaking to him. Do you know there's only three angels named in the Bible? Two of them are God's angels. One of them is Lucifer and he is mentioned, but there's only two of God's elect angels mentioned in the entire Bible.

And we find it only in the book of Daniel. And here in this chapter is the first mention of an angel's name apart from Lucifer himself. Here is one of God's angels. We shouldn't be preoccupied with angels, but they do minister to the saints.

There's no doubt. Again, we'll see Gabriel in Daniel chapter nine. We'll see Michael in Daniel chapter 10 and in Daniel chapter 12. Do you know where else Gabriel appears? He also appears in the gospel of Luke in chapter one.

He actually announces to Zachariah that he's going to have a son who was John the Baptist, that this old wife is going to become pregnant, his wife, Elizabeth, and give birth to this prophet of God. Also in Luke chapter one, this angel Gabriel appears onto a young girl, a young lady called Mary, to tell her about that holy thing that was being conceived within her.

This is the same angel Gabriel. I'm talking about the interpretation of prophecy. Daniel was a great prophet. In his latter days, much experience. He could interpret other men's dreams and visions, but here he is.

The angel Gabriel has to instruct him about this. You see, it's amazing that there's about 27 percent of the Bible is prophecy. About 80 percent of it is already fulfilled, and 45 percent of the book of Daniel is actually prophecy.

Some Bible teachers have said there's probably about 58 distinct, utterly separate events prophesied in the book of Daniel. It's remarkable. Most of them are in the past now, but there's many which have yet still to come to pass.

What is true prophecy? What is a true vision from God? What is true instruction and revelation from God? It gives exact detail, the order of events, the right names, the right timing. There is accuracy and fulfillment.

Do you realize that with real prophecy, it can predict things hundreds of years ahead accurately? It can prophesy things thousands of years ahead accurately. You ask me, how do you know the Bible is true?

This is one of the main reasons, because from Genesis to Revelation, there are thousands of prophecies. I can test them because many have already come to pass, and many are yet to come to pass. I know that this is God's book.

It is infallible. It is perfect. It never gets one thing wrong. It is more accurate than archaeologists, than history books, than secular authorities. It has never been proven wrong. Saints, I'm telling you about the interpretation of Bible prophecy.

We have got to seek the Lord. We have got to wait upon God. It might take you to your late 60s or early 70s, on your knees before God, in seclusion, set apart, having retired from work, to really hear from heaven on these things.

I want to tell you, I have spent decades before I ever put any of these things on my lips. I have spent decades studying, thinking, praying before I ever once preached any of these truths. Oh, that we would do that again in the church.

Be very careful how you interpret Bible prophecy. Be very careful of going on publicly and proclaiming special revelations. And can I instruct all of you here, don't go on YouTube and listen to every preacher and teacher and follow every new ideology.

You will get so confused. Those that prophesied the rapture would happen in 2017. You know what they done? They didn't repent. All they done was say, we got it wrong. Let's do it again. And they still teach and people still follow them.

How foolish to listen to the interpretation of men. You know what? It's just 10 days ago. I had a dream in the night. I woke up early in the morning and I just dreamed about the beginning of 2025 and the results of the next American election.

None of you dare email me or ask me what I dreamed because I'm not going to be telling you. You know what? I could care less what I had in a dream of the night, but this book thrills me. It's prophecies amaze me.

I don't need some strange ideology. This book is stunning with its prophecies and its accuracy. That's my first point about the interpretation of Bible prophecy. Daniel was a man instructed by God, not only given visions, not only given dreams, but he was taught of God and his latter days.

You know, Andrew Murray, that great man of God, that great Bible teacher wrote most of his books and his latter days as an old man. That's the time to really write books. I hate to see a new book from a new preacher.

It's a waste of time. Throw it in the bin. Don't be less than that. Go back and read the old authors from 100 years ago or 150 years ago. They are proven. They have stood the test of time. They have got good marriages.

They have walked with God away with all the foolishness of this hour. I'm sick to the back teeth of it. My second point here, as we begin to look at Daniel 8, I'm talking about the clash of kingdoms. We need men of God, those that can interpret the times, those who understand Bible prophecy amidst the clash of kingdoms.

We've got to know what God is doing. We've got to know what God is saying. We've got to know what the word of God actually proclaims about this hour. That's the job of the church. That's the job of genuine preachers in this hour.

The Ram and the Rise of Medo-Persia

But second of all, the triumph of grace, the triumph of grace. Listen to me. I'm talking about Daniel 8 is a vision interpreted by the angel, revealed to Daniel about the triumph of grace. Do you know what happened?

He is now in the Babylonian empire. He is now experiencing this under the last king of Babylon. There is just about to be a new empire arise for 200 years and more, which is called the Medo-Persian empire.

And at the end of that, the Grecian empire is going to take over. Do you realize that Daniel is prophesying here before Medo-Persia rises, before it even rises and gains power? He is given a vision of its end, how it's going to come to its end after 200 years.

And he gets the vision in the palace at Shushan. What a remarkable thing here. Real prophecy is astounding. It is amazing. It is remarkable. It is supernatural. That's why so many people who don't believe in the supernatural, they try to say that Daniel wasn't written when it was written, but it was written 500 years later because they can't get their mind around the accuracy.

They said he had to have written after the events. It is too accurate, too detailed, too precise. So he couldn't have prophesied it. He had to have lived afterwards. And what we have in Daniel, they say it's a history book.

No, it's a prophecy book. What is prophecy? It's history detailed before it happens. That's what prophecy simply is. Let me give you the vision here tonight. In verse three, in this vision, look what Daniel sees, a ram which had two horns.

He sees this vision, a ram with two horns. What is the ram with two horns? He didn't know. But in verse 20, the angel Gabriel tells him what this ram is. The ram which thou sawst having two horns are the two kings of Meda and Persia.

It hasn't risen to power yet. These two kingdoms haven't been united as one empire yet. And Daniel is seeing this before all of this happens, before it comes to power. He's seeing its end 200 plus years later.

What is the ram? It is the kings of the Medes and the Persians. Now, what is a ram? It's a male sheep. It's actually the symbol, the official symbol of the Medo-Persian empire. Do you know that Medo-Persia, its symbol was Arius and the zodiac, the symbol of the ram was their national symbol.

The kings of Meda and Persia used to wear helmets. All the kings, when they went out to war, they wore helmets with the two horns of a ram, often in gold and decorated with jewels. Do you know what the ram's horns on their helmet and what the symbol of the ram represented in the Medo-Persian empire for 200 years?

It represented deity. It represented their God. It was a sacred animal. And what it actually symbolized was superiority to any other animal. It symbolized power and warfare. It symbolized invasion and going into other nations.

You see, the ram was their God of war, and it was a symbol of their God's blessing upon them to triumph in war. You'll also know about Persian carpets. I think we've got one downstairs, but you'll see all these little symbols.

Today, Persian carpets that are still made all over the world, and you'll find them in every country. You'll see the horns of the ram. That is still the fundamental symbol of a Persian carpet. Notice as well, this ram had two horns, and the two horns were high, but one of the horns was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.

Do you know what this represents? This represents the rise of Persia above Media. Media was a bigger kingdom. Persia was a young, smaller kingdom, and yet Persia rises up later, but it rises up higher.

This is Daniel more than 200 years before its demise, before it rises as a power. He is saying it's the symbol that it's represented, the entire kingdom's represented by a ram, and the angel Gabriel is revealing unto him this whole power play, and that Persia is going to dominate.

Do you know what made it Persia? Remember, it made it Persia. It's mostly big and small. Persia's small. Today, Persia is Iran. They don't call themselves Media. They call themselves Persia. That's what they're known as.

Look at verse four. I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. This is what they'd done for 200 years. They pushed in all of these directions, like a ram budding out into the nations in Iran, pushing in these three different directions.

Listen to this. This gives a summary of 200 years of history, so that no beast might stand before him. Neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will and became great.

That's what the Medo-Persian Empire done. Nobody could stand before them. This is a summary right down to their last king, Darius III. He was the last king, and he had the largest army in the entire world.

For 200 years, they kept advancing, kept pushing out. Nobody could stand in their way, but you know what Daniel gets a revelation of the last king of the end of this great empire. Before it rises, before it rises, he is seeing its end, how its history is going to end over 200 years later.

Alexander the Great and the Greek Goat

Let's go further with this vision here. Verse five, and as I was considering, he's watching the ram, he's studying it, he's wondering what it means, and as he was considering, behold a he-goat so you have a second animal, not just a ram representing the Medo-Persian Empire.

He now sees another animal, a he-goat come up into this vision. What is the he-goat? What does it represent? Don't create your own interpretation. That's where all the problems come in Bible prophecy.

I think this, I think that maybe you should sit quiet a bit. Maybe you should be instructed a bit. What is this he-goat that he sees in the vision? Look at verse 21. Gabriel tells him again, and the rough goat is the king of Persia.

It's a he-goat and it's a rough goat. It's a belly goat and it's a rough goat. Do you know what a rough goat means? It means a shaggy goat. In other words, it's got a coat on it. It's got a shaggy coat.

Now a goat is a symbol of grace or the Grecian Empire that 200 years later was going to replace Medo-Persia. This is the symbol of it. Why is grace represented in this vision and interpreted by Gabriel and given to Daniel?

Why is an empire that's going to rise 200 years later? In fact, a nation that is utterly divided. It had hundreds of kings, hundreds of small city-states. It was never united. It was never an empire.

It was never a united country. And yet 200 years before, Daniel sees in vision that this is going to be the great next world empire that's going to arise. And it's symbolized as a rough shaggy male billy goat.

Now why is it represented as a billy goat? If you go into the history of Greece, you find out that a man called Kuranos was the first king of Macedonia, the northern region of Greece. The place where Alexandria, Alexander the Great came from.

Now the first king of Macedonia founded a city there called Edessa. And do you know how he established, right in the middle of Macedonia, do you know how he established that city? He was given a prophecy that when he got to the right area, when he was moving with his people to find a whole new region, he was given a prophecy that you will find the area to start a new city by following a herd of goats.

And when you follow that herd of goats, wherever they stop and begin to feed, that's where you're going to plant your new city. And that the gods are going to raise up a whole new people in Macedonia, in that region.

Well, that's what he done. That was the beginning of the Macedonians, the first king of the Macedonians. And later, Alexander the Great is going to become not only a later king of Macedonia, but the first king of all of Greece.

This symbol of the goat was on all of their coins down through generations. It became the symbol of Macedonia. Philip Alexander's father actually had his head on one side and the shaggy goat, the rough goat on the other side.

Then when Alexander the Great came to power, there's still coins. You can buy them on eBay. Go look for them and get me one while you're at it. You'll have Alexander's head on one side and you'll have the goat on the other side.

This is why it is called the goat. But here's another reason. The Aegean Sea, which was between Greece and between Asia Minor, which was the beginning of the entire Persian empire, the Persian-Median empire, that small sea that separated Greece in the days of Alexander from the entire Persian empire, the Aegean Sea.

What does it mean, Aegean Sea? Do you know that it means goat? That's what that sea actually means. It means goat. It was named after Aegeus, who was called the Goatman, or one of the early kings of Athens from 900 years before.

Do you know today Greece is still, its livestock is 48 goats. So the symbol of grace. What a remarkable thing that 200 years before a country, an empire rises, God prophesies and depicts it as a wild goat, and it's going to clash with the Medo-Persian empire.

Look what he says about this goat that comes into this vision, this shaggy goat. Look what happens in verse five. And this goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth. So it gave not only a depiction of it, but it said what direction?

It's going to come from the west. That's exactly what happened on the face of the whole earth. And this goat touched not the ground, meaning it went at such a speed. You know when they say your feet don't touch the ground, it means you're moving so fast, you don't have time to touch the ground.

You're just moving. Well, this goat was moving at such a speed, such a velocity of speed that its feet didn't even touch the ground. And the ground had a notable horn between its eyes. Now look what it says here.

What is this notable horn? Very noticeable horn between its eyes. Verse 21. And the great horn that is between the eyes is the first king of Grecia. So we see that Grecia is depicted, the Grecian empire that's going to replace Medo-Persia.

It is depicted as a goat that doesn't even touch the ground, but between its eyes it has a horn. What do horns represent? Kings. Kings. This horn on the goat represents the first ever king of the Grecian nation or empire.

What a remarkable thing that Daniel is having revealed to him who the first king is going to be of this united nation. We know now that this was Alexander the Great. In verse six here, it goes further and says, and he came to the ram that had two horns.