he's also one of the only people in the history of the world that was singularly prophesied in the bible, literally god's message to the world. pretty much everything else is represented as nations, but the passage goes out of its way to mention that the "goat" is a male and that his empire would break into four. this nigga was the main character of his time, it's ridiculous.   e/?search=daniel%208%3a5-8%2cdaniel %208%3a21-22&version=esv > 5 as i was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. and the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. 6 he came to the ram with the two horns, which i had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath. 7 i saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns. and the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. and there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power. 8 then the goat became exceedingly great, but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven. > 21 and the goat[a] is the king of greece. and the great horn between his eyes is the first king. 22 as for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his[b] nation, but not with his power.
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