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Read Daniel 8 carefully, did you skip the part where Jesus (Son of Man) orders the angel Gabriel to explain to Daniel the meaning, and Gabriel says "this vision is about the end of time". So no one can say daniel 8 isn't specifically about end times. Look, history itself is a grand parable because God is the one who wrote it. previous events in the past are mirrors or "miniature version"s of events that happen in the future. This has happened countless times. For example, back in Genesis when God tells abraham "will you sacrifice your only begotten son for me?" abraham doesn't question God, puts the wooden planks required to build the sacrifical altar on the shoulders of his son Isaac, and they walk up the hill. Isaac asks his father, "father, you have the knife, I have the wooden planks, but where is the lamb we're going to sacrifice?" and abraham tells him, "God will provide the lamb." This is clearly a mirror to Jesus when he carried the wooden sacrifical altar on his shoulders up the hill of Golgotha, and so God did indeed provide the lamb. This was a biblical example, but the same "mirrors" happen in history aswell. For example Daniel 8 was first mirrored with Alexander when he crushed Persia, this happened just as daniel said but the attack wasn't "without touching the ground" nor did the world end after Alexander did this, because this was only a mirror of the real thing that will happen in the future. Another example is the "abomination that causes desolation" this means "a disgusting thing that doesn't belong there". This was fulfilled two times, first when greeks invaded Judea they put pagan idols and statue of zeus inside the temple, this was the "disgusting thing that doesn't belong there" of that time. the second time this was fulfilled was when roman soldiers put roman standard (the poles used by the roman army that they believed gave them pagan gods power) in the temple. Now the third and the "true" abomination that causes desolation will be the animal sacrifice altar on the new jewish temple, why? because it is a disgusting thing that doesn't belong there, Jesus was the final sacrifice, Blood of Christ was the final and real passover lamb. rebuilding the temple and saying "the blood of this sheep will clean us from our sins, Jesus's blood was invalid" is the real abomination, it's like the biggest insult you can do to God, and it will indeed cause desolation. Another mirror is how roman soldiers came to destroy the temple, this time a huge 200-million army from the east will march to jerusalem to destroy it, the final military battle in history the armageddon, named armageddon because the army will mobilize in the valley of Megiddo that will be easily accesible because the euphrates river dried up, and they will march to jerusalem like the romans did. they will have to do a land invasion because the world will be already nuked at that point. again, the bible never says "it is forbidden to use these verses to recognize the events leading up to the end", rather it encourages you to do it, in matthew and revelation it says "let the reader understand", winking at us reading it 2000 years later. Hosea 6:2 "After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence." the "two days" (two-1000 years) is almost up, let's look forward to the restoration (millenial reign) and the joy of living in His presence. you have to wake up from the babylon mindset to not get scared when these happen. instead of the counterfeit "solution" they are going to enforce, the real "solution" is recognizing that the entire history of the universe was a love-letter written for you, written like poetry with parables, and the Writer Himself stepped into the story He wrote Himself, to tell you that He loves you, and to show you what the "perfect life" on this was supposed to be like, but no one can live the perfect life in this broken world because they will kill you in this sinful world. His life is like an instruction manual, you humble yourself to the point where you are "crucified" then you can see this world for what it really is, and understand the intentions of the Author of life. This is what Paul meant when he said "i am crucified with Christ, it is no longer me who lives but Christ who lives in me."