It still seems like the best fit for the 2300 evening-mornings (Daniel 8.14) best fits the activity of Antiochus concerning the "daily sacrifices taken away" (8.11), the "desolation" (8.13), and later, the "cleansing" 8.14 of the temple.
Antiochus is the "little horn" that came out of one of the 4 families/ or generals (4 horns) after Alexander the Great.
Yet what is the "time of the end" in 8.17? Is it the end of the "indignation" 8.19? And what is that? Walvoord may be right in calling this "God's anger against Israel"--God uses other nations to chasten Israel through persecution, and this was the case with Antiochus against the Jews.
But up through 8.22, could it be Antiochus, while 8.23 - 25 looks beyond Antiochus to the Antichrist, who "will rise against the prince of princes and shall be broken without human means/ hand" (Armageddon?) 8.25?
Both Antiochus and Antichrist were "many days in the future" (8.26) from Daniel's time.
Both cause the "abomination of desolation" and cause the sacrifices to cease in the Temple and persecute the people of God.
Both are "little horns."
Yet little horn in Daniel 7.8 that comes up among 10 horns of the 4th beast of Daniel 7 is clearly the antichrist as described later in his character in Daniel 7 and in Revelation 13 and 2 Thessalonians 2.
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