Daniel 8:11
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Daniel 8:11 belongs to the revelations of the mysteries of ages to come recorded in Daniel 7-12, which were not fully understood even by Daniel himself and were shut up and sealed even to the time of the end in the closing period of this world's history, with the blessed assurance that Daniel would rest and stand in his lot and place at the end of the days. It belongs to a vision given directly by God especially for the last days, whose foretold events are now being fulfilled and will soon come to pass. In that vision the symbols of the ram, the goat, and the little horn had already been explained, while the time period of the 2300 days remained the unresolved point Daniel did not yet understand, and his prayer for the ruined sanctuary reflected his mistaken belief that the period ended with Israel's seventy years of captivity.
The little horn of the prophecy is historic Rome, not Antiochus Epiphanes, with the chapter's symbols and the little horn's specifications applied to Rome's historical actions. Rome is the power that magnified itself against Jesus, the Prince of the host, when Herod and Pontius Pilate joined in opposing Him. The prophetic periods in Daniel 8, of which this verse is part, are reckoned in chronology from 457 B.C.
In the verse the word sacrifice was added by human wisdom and does not belong in the text. The correct understanding of the daily was given to those who proclaimed the judgment-hour message and first angel's message, on which nearly all were united before 1844. After 1844 other views of the daily arose amid confusion, bringing further darkness and confusion. It is part of the disputed passage about the daily, whose precise meaning is not a test of faith or a matter of vital importance. In connection with it, prophetic time ceased to be a test after 1844 and would never again be a test.