“And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram 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 hand.”
The goat strikes the ram, breaking both its horns and casting it to the ground where it tramples the ram—depicting Alexander's decisive military victories that destroyed Medo-Persian power completely. The symbolic destruction of both horns indicates total elimination of both components of the former empire's leadership and military capacity. This verse demonstrates the completeness and permanence of imperial transitions and the futility of resistance against God's appointed successor.
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