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• But when we look at a larger-scale map, we see just how far away Greece and Macedonia are, in relation to the Middle East, either from Ur of the Chaldees and the origins of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires, and even further east when we consider that the Persian Empire stretched as far as India.
• Truly, as Daniel’s prophecy tells us, that goat-power arose from the west, indeed, very far west in relation to the Holy Land. And just as the prophecy tells us that the goat-power, with its first king (Alexander the Great) flew with anger and rage at the Medo-Persians - travelling so far and so fast that its feet seemed to hardly touch the ground - so, too, Alexander the Great came out of nowhere and conquered everything before him.
• In just a few short years, Alexander had gone from an unknown prince, to the revered leader of an Empire, only to be cut off and killed in his prime, just as Daniel’s prophecy had foretold.