What do you mean? They are parallel to each other..
Nope!
Chapter 7 is about the coming A/C.
Chapter 7:23-24
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And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings." "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time."
and chapter 8 concerns Antiochus.
8:8-9
"Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up
four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven."
So then what is the problem????????? WHY is there such debate and contention????
Actually it is easy and very simple. Our brother Phoneman is a SDA believers, through and through. And the Adventist scholars over the years who have followed Mrs. Ellen G. White have accepted that the little horn of Daniel 8 did not arise from Greece, as the symbol of the Goat indicates, have suggested that the little horn comes from one of the "
four winds" of heaven, rather than out of one of the four horns of the Goat as the Scriptures clearly say.
That is a choice to change the Word of God to what one wants it to say instead of believing what it actually does say.
They claim the Hebrew allows for this possible interpretation, but does it in fact aloow that interpretation?????
Daniel 8:8,9 -
..and for it
came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. And out of one of them came forth a little horn..."
In Hebrew, words can be feminine, masculine, or neutral. In Dan. 8:9, the word "them" is masculine. Since "horns" is feminine, and "winds" can be either masculine or feminine, SDA scholars have suggested the word "them" must refer to "winds". And they fervently contend, that the little horn arose out of one of the four winds, separate from the Grecian Kingdom.
Why does it matter? The SDA realizes that if the ‘horn’ came out of one of the four divisions of Greece then their foundational doctrine is false; so they must contend that the little horn came out of the ‘wind’, and of course they will explain that this ‘wind’ is the far west wind of Italy. It is really very easy to believe with just a little study of this issue that the reader will see that the SDA reasoning for this is rather shallow.
What about CONTEXT?????
The context teaches that it does not matter if the verse read
“And out of one of the four winds came forth a little horn” or “And out of one of the four notable ones came forth a little horn”: Because it does not change the fact that the
horn from littleness rose from one of the four Grecian provinces.
The prophecy of Daniel 8 clearly teaches that at the death of the first king of Greece, the empire would be divided toward the four winds
(in four directions); which simply means there would be a northern province, a southern province, an eastern province and a western province. And of course the prophecy was fulfilled exactly; After the death of Alexander, Greece was divided among his four generals. Ptolemy, began a dynasty in Egypt (South); and Seleucus did the same in Syria (North). Lycemicus took over Asia Minor (east) and Cassander took Mesopotamia (West).
Instead of referring to these provinces by name Daniel refers to them by their wind or direction. For example he refers to Syria and Egypt as the North and South in the following verses.
It is just that simple by brothers and sisters!