Old Testament Prophets would present a long term prophecy and a short term prophecy. Here in Chapter 8 of Daniel, he is given two short term prophecies to confirm the long term prophecy of chapter 7. He sees the destruction of the Persian Empire, and the four kingdoms that will take what Alexander's Greek Empire won. One of those four would see a figure rise that abuses the Jews, blasphemes God, and dies. Antiochus IV Epiphanes prefigures the little horn of chapter 7, the Anti-Christ.
