Who was Alexander the Great? What does he have to do with biblical prophecy?
Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in human history. At the age of 20, he gained control of the Greek army and quickly conquered territories east of Greece, all the way to India. When he was 33-years-old, he suddenly died from a mysterious illness. The book of Daniel, which was written 250 years before Alexander was born, describes him in finite detail from the beginning of his reign to the end: “As I was thinking about this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came from the west, crossing the whole earth without touching the ground. He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and charged at him in great rage. I saw him attack the ram furiously striking the ram and shattering his two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against him; the goat knocked him to the ground and trampled on him, and none could rescue the ram from his power. The goat became very great, but at the height of his power his large hor
