A Little Horn Attacks Host and Sanctuary

A little horn reaches the pleasant land and stops the regular offering

Out of one of the four horns comes a little horn that waxes exceeding great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. It waxes great even to the host of heaven, casts down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamps upon them.

It magnifies itself even to the prince of the host, takes away the daily sacrifice, and casts down the place of his sanctuary. A host is given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression; it casts down the truth to the ground and practises and prospers.

How long receives 2,300 evenings-mornings, not a modern date

Daniel hears one saint ask another how long the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation will last, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot. The answer is unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. KJV days renders the Hebrew evening-morning count.

The count may be taken as 2,300 days or as 1,150 pairs of morning and evening offerings. Start, end, and later reuse are disputed. The strong historical horizon is Antiochus IV's attack on Judean worship. The horn does not identify a modern person or state, and the number is not a current countdown.