Antiochus IV Epiphanes - Wikipedia
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c. 215 BC – 164 BC Hellenistic Greek king of the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC.
Notable events during the reign of Antiochus IV include his near-conquest of Egypt, his persecution of the Jews of Judea and Samaria, and the rebellion of the Jewish Maccabees.
Antiochus was the first Seleucid king to use divine epithets on coins, perhaps inspired by the Bactrian Hellenistic kings who had earlier done so, or else building on the ruler cult that his father Antiochus the Great had codified within the Seleucid Empire. These epithets included Θεὸς Ἐπιφανής “manifest god”, and, after his defeat of Egypt , Νικηφόρος “bringer of victory”.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes: The Antichrist of the Old Testament
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taken as a whole Antiochus IV Epiphanes is undoubtedly one of the greatest prototypes of the Antichrist in all of God’s Word.