Reading for June 21st

Read Daniel 8.1-27 The vision of the ram and the goat.
A second vision surveys Greece's defeat of Persia and points to the downfall of Antiochus IV.
The language of the book reverts to Hebrew (see 2.4b).
In verses 1-4 third year of Belshazzar: 552 BCE.
Susa, located in the province of Elam by the River Ulai in modern Iran,
was the winter captial of the Persian empire.
The ram with two horns is the combined Persian-Median empire.
In verse 5 the male goat with a horn is the empire of Alexander, who swept through Persia in
333-330 BCE.
Alexander died in 323 BCE, and his empire split into separate kingdoms.
In verses 9-14 another horn, a little one: Antiochus IV, who attempted to extend his power to the south and east, including the beautiful land of Israel.
Alexander defiled the Temple by turning it into a sanctuary for Zeus.
Two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings: or 1,150 days, approximately three years and two months (see 7.25; 12.7), the time of Antiochus's persecution (1 Macc 1.54-4.52).
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