The angel saying that the prophecy is of the last days, and the male goat coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground has always intrigued me. Will we see the breakup of the US into four parts and out of one of these will come the world dictator? Only G_d knows.
Isaiah 63:1-6
The angel saying that the prophecy is of the last days, and the male goat coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground has always intrigued me
it's intriguing but Alexander the Great moved so speedily conquering especially Persia/Elam's one million man army this could be an idiom.
I have not studied all of Daniel in Hebrew and eschatolgy is fun but it divides a lot of Christians. I disagree on this but I hope we can pray that G!D reveals the true meaning
http://www.biblestudytools.com/daniel/8-5-compare.html
http://executableoutlines.com/dan/dan_08.htm
Correct me if I'm wrong but you tend toward this? maybe not exactly but similar?( see below):
http://www.theopenscroll.com/dan8.htm
This shows the hebrew and Paleo-Hebrew transliterations. All say "he touched not the ground" so no idiom, but what does this mean? Did the conquerer move speedily upon the earth as if their feet touched not the ground or literal as with airplanes? Does this exegesis fit the rest of the scripture? I'll refer to Acts 17:11 and study this more but to me it's a very broad leap to consider America in scripture( Just my opinion):