Antiochus rose to power at the midpoint of the four heads - he was 8th in a series of 20+ Seleucid kings.
What Common Core math formulas are you using to conclude "8th and at the midpoint" is actually the "latter time" of the four heads?
The focus of description
is ON THE 3RD BEAST!! The
four Hellenistic kingdoms are
from out of the 3rd beast, symbolized as having
four heads, which had evolved into
four separate governments, immediately AFTER the "notable horn was broken", aka "Alex the Great".
The context of scripture provides the 3rd beast's way of going
throughout Daniel.
Dan. 8
The Medio-Persian empire- 2nd beast:
[
3] Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which
had two horns [two armies joined as one empire]: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
[
4] I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and
became great.
The Grecian empire-3rd beast:
[
5] And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground:
Alexander the Great of the 3rd beast:
and
the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
[
6] And he [the 3rd] came to the ram [the 2nd] that had two horns, which I had there seen standing before the river, and [the 3rd] ran unto him [the 2nd] in the fury of his power.
[
7] And I saw him [the 3rd] come close unto the ram [the 2nd], and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram [the 2nd], and brake his two horns [militaristic kingdoms]: and there was no power in the ram [the 2nd] to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his [the 3rd's] hand.
[
8] Therefore the
he goat [the 3rd]
waxed
very great: and when he
was strong,
the great horn [Alex the Great] was broken;
The four Hellenistic kingdoms:
and for it came up four notable ones toward the
four winds of heaven [the four compass points- N,W,S,E.].
Israel was attacked:
[9]
And out of one of them [the four heads] came forth a Little Horn [Antiochus Epiphanes lV [AE-lV] of the Seleucid kingdom],
which waxed [looked for, sought to be]
exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east,
and toward the pleasant land [Israel].
[
10] And it [the little horn- AE-lV]
waxed [looked for, sought to be]
great,
even to the host of heaven [Israel]; and it cast down
some of the host [army of Israel] and of the stars [leaders] to the ground, and stamped upon them.
[
11] Yea, he [AE-lV] magnified himself
even to the prince of the host [Matthias Maccabeus], and by him [AE-lV]
the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
[
12] And an host [army] was given him
against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth [the 10C Law] to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
[
13] Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake,
How LONG shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give BOTH the
sanctuary and
the host to be trodden under foot?
[
14] And he said unto me,
Unto two thousand and three hundred days* [not years]; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. [45 days later,
AFTER the 1290 days [1335 days].
*
Note: the Hebrew word for "day" in vs. 14 is meaning "evening to evening", being a single 24 hour Jewish day.
