వ్యాఖ్యానం ప్రస్తుతం ఆంగ్లంలో మాత్రమే అందుబాటులో ఉంది. తెలుగు అనువాదం పురోగతిలో ఉంది.
Daniel 8 — The Vision of the Ram and the Goat
A vision appeared unto Daniel after that which appeared unto me at the first. I saw a ram which had two horns; he pushed westward. A he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground. The he goat waxed very great. A little horn came forth out of one of them, which waxed exceeding great. Gabriel — Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision. The ram is Media and Persia; the goat is Grecia. At the latter time a king of fierce countenance shall stand up. He shall be broken without hand.
“So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.”
— Daniel 8:17
- v.1-14 The vision
- v.15-27 Gabriel's interpretation
Fainted... did the king's business. Prophetic insight does not exempt from daily duty. After the vision, the laundry.
A model for visionary faithfulness. Whatever God shows you privately, keep doing the work He has assigned publicly.
Verse 27 corrects the dreamer. Daniel had a stunning vision and went back to his desk. Spiritual insight is no excuse to neglect the king's business assigned to you.
The Prince of princes against whom the little horn rises is Christ. Every age's anti-Christ figures will fail before His coming, broken without hand.
Broken without hand. No human strikes the final blow. Heaven ends the tyrant. The pattern recurs in history; no oppressor outruns it.
The Prince of princes. Christ Himself. The pattern of tyrants opposing Him ends the same way every time.