Who was Antiochus Epiphanes a type of in Daniel's prophecy?
Antiochus Epiphanes, the little Syrian dictator, was a type of the Antichrist in Daniel’s prophecy. He defiled the temple by sacrificing a hog on the altar, and that abomination prefigures what the coming Antichrist will do in the middle of the seven-year treaty.
Les teaches that Antiochus Epiphanes, the little Syrian dictator, was a type of the Antichrist back in Daniel’s prophecy, and he says Antiochus is also referred to in Isaiah. Though a pipsqueak in history, he is a big deal in Scripture because he defiled the temple by sacrificing a hog, a sow, on the altar, and the swine’s blood was the abomination. Les thinks the Antichrist will do much the same thing: in the middle of the seven years he will cause sacrifice and oblation to stop, perform the abomination of desolation, and make the temple desolate. Jesus refers to this in Matthew 24, when the man comes into Jerusalem and the Temple and defiles it.