Daniel 8:19

Gabriel clarified that what he was going to explain dealt with "the final period of the indignation" and "the appointed time of the end." Clearly this was future from Daniel’s point in history. Yet does it refer to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes exclusively, [Note: Driver, pp. 99, 121; and Young, p. 288.] or does it refer to the end times before Jesus Christ returns, [Note: G. H. Pember, The Great Prophecies of the Centuries Concerning Israel and the Gentiles, pp. 289-90; Clarence Larkin, The Book of Daniel, p. 165; and S. P. Tregelles, Remarks on the Prophetic Visions in the Book of Daniel, pp. 82-83.] or both? Most premillennial interpreters believe that it refers to both in some sense, either as a double fulfillment [Note: Louis T. Talbot, The Prophecies of Daniel, p. 143; William Kelly, Lectures on the Book of Daniel, p. 132; Nathaniel West, Daniel’s Great Prophecy, p. 103; Seiss, p. 221; Pentecost, pp. 1359; idem, Prophecy for Today, pp. 82-83; idem, Things to Come, pp. 332-34; The New Scofield . . ., p. 911; and Campbell, p. 97.] or as a type and antitype. [Note: Walvoord, Daniel . . ., pp. 196-200; and Archer, "Daniel," pp. 104-105.] To me the difference between the double fulfillment view and the type and antitype view is semantic. Both of these views see some fulfillment in Antiochus and some in the Antichrist. The conclusion that the prophecy relates to both times rests on what follows in Daniel 8:23-25 and on other uses of the phrase "the end" in Daniel (Daniel 9:26; Daniel 11:6; Daniel 11:27; Daniel 11:35; Daniel 11:40; Daniel 11:45; Daniel 12:4; Daniel 12:6; Daniel 12:9; Daniel 12:13). Other examples of this double, or typological fulfillment, are Jesus fulfilling what was prophesied of Him-fulfilled to some degree earlier by Moses, the Israelites, and David.