I continue to learn new things, and now, after further research, I think the explanations in the Footnotes below the following scripture passage are correct:
The footnotes are wrong. The footnotes refer to Antiochus IV as being the little horn of Daniel 8:13.
Daniel 8:11-14 is a vision (in the text) about a the little horn stopping the daily sacrifice and committing
the transgression of desolation at
the time of the end.
The footnotes are wrong because....
1. in Daniel 11:31, Antiochus was said not to have committed
the transgression of desolation, but has
the abomination of desolation placed in the temple sanctuary building.
2. in Daniel 8:17, Gabriel said that the vision is at the time of the end. Antiochus was not time of the end.
Jan 001, in order to understand the end times series of events, you need to realize that there is a difference between the transgression of desolation in Daniel 8:12-13 and the abomination of desolation of Daniel 11:31 and Daniel 12:11-12.
The transgression of desolation will be an act, an action.
The abomination of desolation will be a thing, an object, an idol.
In the end times, after the 7 year 70the week begins, in the middle of it, the transgression of desolation act, action, will lead to there being a thing, an object, an idol made and placed on the temple mount, which that statue image of the beast king will be the abomination of desolation.
"desolation" within the context of the transgression of desolation and the abomination of desolation - means that the temple will be made void of any worship and praise of the One True God in the temple during that time.
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The person referred to in Daniel 9:27 who confirms the covenant for 7 years, goes through 5 stages on the path to his demise of being cast into the lake of fire.
1. as the little horn
2. as the prince who shall come
3. as the Antichrist
4. as the revealed man of sin
5. as the beast king