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How does dispensationalist futurism read Daniel 8, and what is the textual basis for a type/antitype reading of the little horn?

General scriptures: MAT 24:5,23,24,26; MRK 13:6,21,22; LUK 21:8; 2TH 2:3-12; 1JN 2:18,22; 4:3; 2JN 1:7
To be destroyed: REV 19:20; 20:10,15
NOTE: All verse references are NT. No OT passage in this Nave's entry references Daniel 8. The "antichrist" concept in Nave's is exclusively a NT category.

Figurative: Of divine protection 2SA 22:3; Of power 1KI 22:11; PSA 89:24; 92:10; 132:17
SYMBOLICAL: DAN 7:7-24; 8:3-9,20; AMO 6:13; MIC 4:13; HAB 3:4; ZEC 1:18-21; REV 5:6; 12:3; 13:1,11; 17:3-16
NOTE: Nave's groups Dan 7 and Dan 8 horns together under SYMBOLICAL. This topical grouping supports treating them as related rather than split entities.

General scriptures include: DAN 7:25; 11:36,37; 2TH 2:3,4; REV 13:1,5,6; 16:9,11,21; 17:3
Prophecy of: REV 13:1,5,6; 16:9,11,21; 17:3
Instances of: The man of sin 2TH 2:3,4
NOTE: Nave's directly links Dan 7:25 with 2TH 2:3,4 and REV 13:1,5,6 as blasphemy instances. This supports the NT convergence argument.

General scriptures: JOB 12:3; EZK 31:10-14; OBA 1:3,4; LUK 14:7-11; 2CO 10:5,17,18; GAL 6:3; 2TH 2:4
Instances: Pharaoh EXO 9:17; Prince of Tyre EZK 28:2,9; Nebuchadnezzar DAN 4:30; 5:20; Belshazzar DAN 5:23; Simon the Sorcerer ACT 8:9; Herod ACT 12:20-23
NOTE: Pattern of self-exaltation from Pharaoh through Tyre to Nebuchadnezzar to the "man of sin" (2TH 2:4). This pattern is relevant to FUT's type/antitype argument.

Solomon's Temple: Built, dedicated, destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (2KI 24:13; 25:9-17; 2CH 36:7,19)
Prophecies of destruction by Daniel: DAN 8:11-15; 11:30,31
The Second Temple: Restored by Zerubbabel; Prophecies of restoration: ISA 44:28; DAN 8:13,14; HAG 1; 2; ZEC 1:16; 4:8-10; 6:12-15; 8:9-15; MAL 3:1
Ezekiel's Vision: EZK 37:26,28; 40-48
Figurative: Of the indwelling of God 1CO 3:16,17; 2CO 6:16; Of the ekklesia EPH 2:21; 2TH 2:4; REV 3:12; Of the kingdom of Christ REV 11; 14:15,17
CRITICAL NOTE: Nave's categorizes 2TH 2:4 under FIGURATIVE temple usage ("of the ekklesia"). This is significant because FUT reads it as a literal future temple, while the topical categorization places it alongside metaphorical uses.

Inspired: ISA 28:22; LUK 1:70; 2TI 3:16; 2PE 1:21
Sure fulfillment: EZK 12:22-25,28; HAB 2:3; MAT 5:18; 24:35; ACT 13:27,29
Of apostasy: 1JN 2:18; Jude 1:17,18
Extensive list of OT Messianic passages quoted in NT (ISA 7:14/MAT 1:23; ISA 9:1-2/MAT 4:15-16; etc.)
NOTE: The PROPHECY entry cites HAB 2:3 ("the vision is yet for an appointed time") — relevant to whether Daniel's visions have a distant-future terminus.

Of the Jews: See ISRAELITES
Of all things: ACT 3:21; REV 21:1-5
NOTE: Brief entry. The "restoration of all things" (ACT 3:21) is relevant to FUT's claim that Dan 8:14 nitsdaq = future temple restoration.

General: JOB 14:12-15; 19:25-27; PSA 16:9,10; 17:15; 49:15; ISA 25:8; 26:19; EZK 37:1-14; DAN 12:2,3,13; HOS 13:14; MAT 22:23-32; 24:31; JHN 5:21,25,28,29; 6:39,40,44,54; 11:23-25; ACT 2:26-31; ROM 8:10,11; 1CO 6:14; 15:12-57; PHP 3:10,11,21; 1TH 4:14,16; HEB 6:2; 11:19,35; REV 1:18; 20:4-6,13
Typified: Isaac GEN 22:13/HEB 11:19; Jonah JON 2:10/MAT 12:40
NOTE: DAN 12:2,3,13 is the eschatological terminus of the eth qets chain. Both FUT and HIST agree this points to bodily resurrection at the end of history.

TRIBULATION (Nave's score 0.73) — Cross-references to AFFLICTION, SUFFERING. JHN 16:33. FUT's tribulation framework for the 2300 days depends on this concept.
ARMAGEDDON (Nave's score 0.39) — REV 16:16. Relevant to FUT's eschatological framework but not directly to Daniel 8.