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Antiochus Epiphanes
The Wicked Little Horn
Jehovah's Witnesses interpret the "little horn" in Daniel's visions (Daniel 7; Daniel 8) as "Anglo-American world power" ("7th world power"), Satan, who covers the world with war and terror and persecutes Jehovah's Witnesses. In 1914, they claim, Jehovah established a heavenly [...]
The Two Kings Change Identities
Jehovah's Witnesses claim that chapter 11 of Daniel's book contains a message for millennia to come. They say that there had been announced a millennia-long mutation of the "king of the north" and the "king of the south" (Daniel 11:40). These [...]
The Disgusting Thing
Daniel's book, chapter 11, reports on the desecration of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. There, the Seleucid ruler Antiochus Epiphanes let set up a Zeus Altar (= "abomination that makes desolate", Daniel 11:31) in the year 168 BC to make Jewish [...]