Daniel 8 is another chapter, but I'll have a look at it:
Vision of a Ram and a Goat
8 In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me at first. 2 In the vision I was looking and saw myself in Susa the capital, in the province of Elam, and I was by the river Ulai. 3 I looked up and saw a ram standing beside the river. It had two horns. Both horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one came up second. 4 I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. All beasts were powerless to withstand it, and no one could rescue from its power; it did as it pleased and became strong.
Persia and Media.
5 As I was watching, a male goat appeared from the west, coming across the face of the whole earth without touching the ground. The goat had a horn between its eyes. 6 It came toward the ram with the two horns that I had seen standing beside the river, and it ran at it with savage force. 7 I saw it approaching the ram. It was enraged against it and struck the ram, breaking its two horns. The ram did not have power to withstand it; it threw the ram down to the ground and trampled upon it, and there was no one who could rescue the ram from its power. 8 Then the male goat grew exceedingly great; but at the height of its power, the great horn was broken, and in its place there came up four prominent horns toward the four winds of heaven.
Alexander and the four Greek successors.
9 Out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the beautiful land. 10 It grew as high as the host of heaven. It threw down to the earth some of the host and some of the stars, and trampled on them. 11 Even against the prince of the host it acted arrogantly; it took the regular burnt offering away from him and overthrew the place of his sanctuary. 12 Because of wickedness, the host was given over to it together with the regular burnt offering; it cast truth to the ground, and kept prospering in what it did. 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one that spoke, “For how long is this vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled?” 14 And he answered him, “For two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”
The little horn here is Antiochus IV.
Gabriel Interprets the Vision
15 When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I tried to understand it. Then someone appeared standing before me, having the appearance of a man, 16 and I heard a human voice by the Ulai, calling, “Gabriel, help this man understand the vision.” 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I became frightened and fell prostrate. But he said to me, “Understand, O mortal, that the vision is for the time of the end.”
18 As he was speaking to me, I fell into a trance, face to the ground; then he touched me and set me on my feet. 19 He said, “Listen, and I will tell you what will take place later in the period of wrath; for it refers to the appointed time of the end. 20 As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia. 21 The male goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn between its eyes is the first king. 22 As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
Plainly described - how can Joel Richarson argue when the angel just explained it?
23 At the end of their rule,
when the transgressions have reached their full measure,
a king of bold countenance shall arise,
skilled in intrigue.
24 He shall grow strong in power,
shall cause fearful destruction,
and shall succeed in what he does.
He shall destroy the powerful
and the people of the holy ones.
25 By his cunning
he shall make deceit prosper under his hand,
and in his own mind he shall be great.
Without warning he shall destroy many
and shall even rise up against the Prince of princes.
But he shall be broken, and not by human hands.
Antiochus IV.
Brother goldfish, Daniel 8 can be easily misunderstood in reading, when the angel starts explaining.
Daniel had a vision within a vision. That of the kings of persia, greece, and that greece would break up into 4 lesser kingdoms.
Then Daniel has the vision of the little horn committing the transgression of desolation (that is the act in 2Thessalonians2:3-4 in the new testament, where the person goes into the temple sits, claims to be God)
That vision is time of the end. And it's fulfillment along with the host that he has - are as well. The host is just meaning the big army he has, and the ten kings that will be aligned with him.
So the angel starts explaining in verse 20, going through the king of persia, then the king of greece, then the break kingdoms in verse 22. That's where the already fulfilled parts of Daniel 8 end - in verse 22. And even so, Antiochus, unlike in Daniel 11, is nowhere in Daniel 8.
12 And
an host was given him against the daily
sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Verse 23, jumps to the end times vision of the little horn, and the host that he has, all together they are called the transgressors in verse 23. Verse 23 to the end of Daniel 8 is end times.
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
It is their kingdom - singular - in verse 23 - of the transgressors. At the latter time of their kingdom. Not kingdoms plural, as the four breakup kingdoms in verse 22. That's one way, you can know it is not talking about Antiochus as a continuation of verse 22.
The little horn in Daniel 8 is the same little horn in Daniel 7.
The little horn person, at some point when he is reigning as the King of Israel (illegitimate) begins to magnify himself in heart (verse 25) - he begins to believe he has achieved God-hood.
He will later be killed for his self-delusion, after he comitts the transgression of desolation.
That God has him killed is in Ezekiel 28:1-10. The reason is given why in verse 2. Ezekiel 28 is divided into two code names - the prince of Tyrus (Tyre), for the little horn/then Antichrist/ then beast person; and the King of Tyrus for Satan.
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thine heart is lifted up (Daniel 8:25), and thou hast said, I
am a God, I sit
in the seat of God (2Thessalonians2:3-4), in the midst of the seas (the person is proclaiming to the whole world); yet thou
art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
So God has the person killed, and later in Isaiah 14 in disdain for the person does not allow him to remain in hell, and brings him back to life - it is then the person becomes the beast in Revelation 13.