1&2- AE of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire is most assuredly the little horn.
Antiochus the Chump could never in a million years be considered to be greater than Alex the Great.
The antecedant of the
masculine pronoun "them" in "out of one of
them came forth a little horn"
cannot be the noun "horns" because "horns" is feminine - while "winds" is used as a masculine noun. While it's true that "ones" is a feminine noun, it is in no shape or form the antecedent of the pronoun "them" - it is "winds". Therefore, the little horn does not rise up out of the horn of Seleucid, it arise from "the four winds" of the compass, which is PROOF positive that it ain't talking about Antiochus the Chump.
The 3rd Beast began with Alex the Great, and ended with the 4 horns
Yes, the four horns were conquered by the Little Horn which was Rome in "the latter time of their kingdom", after which they continued to rule but only by ultimate authority of the Caesars. You're confusing anything-but-exceeding great Antiochus the Chump with the "exceeding great" Roman Empire which is herein depicted in both Pagan and Papal phases.
You end remarks are only conclusive to your " religious" denominational persuasion. By a long shot, you are not reading deep enough.
As if no other Protestant church has ever interpreted the Little Horn as I do. Your problem is that you are ignorant of Protestant church history, what the Reformers taught, why they taught it. Before you attack Protestant Historicism with your Jesuit Futurist ideas, you should probably acquaint yourself with it, agreed?
Did you know that the books of Maccabees go hand in hand with Daniel, more than Rev.?
So, two books not inspired by the Holy Spirit are to be considered more integral to eschatology than the Book of Revelation? Got it.
Both Winds and Horns are symbolic of the "Four Generals" of Alex the Great.
Wrong, Daniel didn't say four winds came out of the He-goat -
unless I missed something about a goat burp, a goat sneeze, and two goat farts. "Four Winds" is a Biblically established symbol for the "four directions of the compass" to which the horns arose.
"Exceeding great" ? Yes, let's look at that, and how the churches have messed that up badly.
KJV-Dan.8[
9] And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which
waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. Please notice the word "waxed" . In the context of that verse, Antiochus Epiphanes
desired to exceed in being great, toward...He never reached his goal in being famous. However, as becoming infamous, he was, by committing the "AoD".
Daniel says NOTHING about "desiring to be great" - he says it "waxed exceeding great" or "became exceeding great". Why do you subscribe to an interpretation which demands we "add to" Scripture that which is not there? And if you think the AoD is that pig on the altar, need I remind you that Rome didn't cast dead pigs on the altar, they cast DEAD JEWISH BODIES on that altar. The AoD happenend in 70 A.D., not in the time of the Chump, and is why Jesus everyone to watch for it for when it comes to pass.
Rev. has little to do with Daniel.
And this belief of yours is why you'll never arrive at eschatological spiritual enlightenment, but only the compounded delusion of your beloved Jesuit Futurism