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Lectio Continua: The War on Truth: Full Sermon on Daniel 8 - Pastor Chris Gordon

Pastor Gordon draws out the connection between this vision and Daniel 7, showing how the nations of history — pictured throughout Scripture and even in modern national symbols like the bear, the dragon, and the eagle — rise, dominate, and inevitably fall.

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Jul 24, 2026

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In this sermon on Daniel 8, Pastor Chris Gordon walks through Daniel's second major vision — a ram with two horns, symbolizing the united kingdom of Media and Persia, and a fierce goat, representing Greece under Alexander the Great, who shatters the ram before his own power is broken and divided into four kingdoms. Out of one of these arises a "little horn," identified historically with Antiochus Epiphanes, who desecrates the temple, halts the daily sacrifice, and wages war against the truth and the people of God.

Chapters:

0:00 - Reading of Daniel 8
5:12 - The comfort of modern Christianity
8:39 - Introducing Daniel's second vision
9:02 - Connection back to chapter 7
11:10 - The vision of the ram and the goat
17:16 - Gabriel comes to interpret
18:08 - Ram identified as Media and Persia
18:52 - Goat identified as Greece and Alexander
20:08 - Nations pictured as beasts
25:52 - The little horn revealed
28:10 - Antiochus Epiphanes profiled
29:08 - Satan's assault on the church
33:09 - Daniel's prayer of repentance
36:10 - Christ's triumph over the little horn
37:47 - Closing application and prayer

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Daniel
Gabriel
King Belshazzar
Nebuchadnezzar
Alexander the Great
Antiochus Epiphanes
Book of Revelation (Revelation 12)

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