I, Daniel, had another vision about two years later. It took place when King Belshazzar was in the third year of his reign over Babylon. I saw myself in Susa, capital of Babylon’s Elam province. I was by the Ulai River.
Vision of a killer two-horned ram
I saw a ram standing there by the water. It had two long horns, but one was longer than the other. The short horn was the first to emerge. The longer one developed later. I watched the ram charge west, then north, and then south. No animals were able to stop it. When the ram charged, nothing could save whatever was in its path. The ram grew stronger, and it did whatever it wanted.
Vision of a killer unicorn goat
But then I saw a male goat on the western horizon. It was a unicorn goat, with just one horn between its eyes. I saw it gliding across the land without touching the ground.
This unicorn goat charged the ram with savage force. Enraged, the unicorn goat plowed into the ram, snapping off both ram’s long horns and then stomping it into the ground. Nothing around could have saved that ram.
One horn becomes four
The male unicorn goat grew huge. But at the peak of it’s power, the goat’s horn broke off. Four other horns grew up in its place. Those four horns pointed in the four directions of the four winds: north, south, east, and west. One horn grew another horn—a horn from a horn. It started small but grew large, extending toward the south, and the east, and west toward our beautiful homeland.
This towering horn reached the people of heaven and attacked them, throwing some to the ground, trampling them, and disgracing their leader. It put an end to the daily sacrificial offerings and captured the place of worship. Its evil power was strong enough to kill the truth and end the sacrificial system. Nothing could stop it.
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