The Final Earthly Conflict (Daniel 11)

Class Notes

• Seeds of the Final Conflict Sown in the Past (Daniel 11:1-4)
  • Daniel's angelic instructor (Daniel 10:21) is now said to confirm (fortify) and strengthen Daniel (Daniel 11:1) to receive the truth (Daniel 11:2) concerning the "vision" of the "latter days" (Daniel 10:14)
  • The time of this revelation is said to be "the first year of Darius the Mede" (Daniel 11:1) who conquered Babylon (Daniel 5:30-31)
  • After Darius, Daniel is told that three kings will yet "stand up" ("endure", i.e. have great influence) in Persia (Daniel 11:2) - one of which was "Cyrus the Persian", the successor to Darius (Daniel 6:28), and the one who first allowed the return of the Jews to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem (II Chronicles 36:22-23) under Ezra's leadership (Ezra 1:1-3)
  • The fourth and richest king of Persia (Daniel 11:2) was Ahasuerus who was singled out as the one "which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia" (Esther 1:1) and who "showed the riches of his glorious kingdom" for a "hundred and fourscore days" (Esther 1:4)
    • It was this king who issued "the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem" (Daniel 9:25) under Nehemiah's leadership (Nehemiah 2:1-8)
    • During this time was fulfilled the prophecy which declared "the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times" (Daniel 9:25 cf. Nehemiah 4:11-18)
  • The fourth and richest king of Persia is said to "by his strength through riches" to "stir up ALL against the realm of Grecia" (Daniel 11:2)
    • The Persian ram "pushing westward, and northward, and southward" and who "did according to his will and became GREAT" (Daniel 8:20 cf. Daniel 8:4) is a marked type of Antichrist who "shall do according to his will" and "shall EXALT himself, and MAGNIFY himself" (Daniel 11:36)
    • As "pride goeth before destruction" (Proverbs 16:18), so is the proud Persian kingdom quickly stopped dead in his tracks by the Greek he goat who "touched not the ground" and "ran unto him in the fury of his power" and "cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him" (Daniel 8:21 cf. Daniel 8:5-7)
  • The Greek he goat had a "GREAT horn that is between his eyes" which is said to be Greece's "FIRST king" (Daniel 8:21), i.e. a "MIGHTY king who shall stand up, that shall rule with GREAT dominion, and do according to his will" (Daniel 11:3)
    • The "third kingdom of brass" in Nebuchadnezzar's image "shall bear rule over ALL the earth" (Daniel 2:39) and is also described as the Greek he goat (Daniel 8:21) who "came from the west on the face of the WHOLE earth" (Daniel 8:5)
    • The "GREAT horn" between the eyes of the Greek he goat, i.e. Greece's "FIRST king" (Daniel 8:21) is a most striking type of the "LITTLE horn" with "eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking GREAT things" (Daniel 7:8) and "which waxed exceeding GREAT, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land" (Daniel 8:9)
    • To Israel's LAST and GREATEST enemy, "the Beast" (Revelation 13:2), "was given unto him a mouth speaking GREAT things" (Revelation 13:5 cf. Daniel 7:25) "and it was given to him to make war with the saints, and to OVERCOME them: and POWER was given him OVER ALL kindreds, and tongues, and nations" (Revelation 13:7 cf. Daniel 7:25)
    • The God Who will "remove the diadem, and take off the crown" from "the profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end" (Ezekiel 21:25-26) also declares the SAME FATE for Greece's "MIGHTY" and "WILLFUL" king (Daniel 11:3):
      • "And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be BROKEN, and shall be DIVIDED toward the FOUR winds of heaven: and NOT to his POSTERITY" (Daniel 11:4 cf. Daniel 8:8,22)
      • Historically, Alexander the Great's kingdom was DIVIDED among his FOUR generals, according to the FOUR points of the compass (North/East/South/West)

• Future Rise of the Antichrist (Daniel 11:5-20)
  • The kingdom of Antichrist will be the fourth and FINAL Gentile kingdom as revealed in the four prophetic visions of the Book of Daniel:
    • Vision of the "Great Image" (Daniel 2:31)
      • Babylon: "Head of Gold" (Daniel 2:32,37-38)
      • Media-Persia: "Arms and Breast of Silver" (Daniel 2:32,39)
      • Greece: "Belly and Thighs of Brass" (Daniel 2:32,39)
      • Antichrist (4th kingdom): "Legs of Iron and Feet of Part Iron and Part Clay" (Daniel 2:33,40-42)
    • Vision of the "Four Great Beasts" (Daniel 7:3)
      • Babylon: Tamed "Lion" (Daniel 7:4 cf. Daniel 4:30-37)
      • Media-Persia: Two-Humped Devouring "Bear" (Daniel 7:5)
      • Greece: Four-Headed "Leopard" (Daniel 7:6)
      • Antichrist (4th beast): "Dreadful and Terrible" with "Great Iron Teeth" (Daniel 7:7)
    • Vision of the "Ram" and the "He Goat" (Daniel 8:3-8)
      • Media-Persia: Two-Horned "Ram" (Daniel 8:3-4,20)
      • Greece: "He Goat" (Daniel 8:5-8,21-22)
      • Antichrist: "Little Horn" (Daniel 8:9 cf. Daniel 7:8)
    • Vision of the "Latter Days" (Daniel 10:14)
      • Media-Persia: "Three Kings" (Daniel 11:2); "Three Ribs" (Daniel 7:5)
      • Greece: "Four Winds" (Daniel 11:4 cf. Daniel 8:8); "Four Wings" (Daniel 7:6)
      • Antichrist: "Willfful King" (Daniel 11:36)
  • The first three Gentile kingdoms arose SUCCESSIVELY in the PAST (Daniel 2:39), but will reappear TOGETHER with the fourth Gentile kingdom in the FUTURE and then be destroyed ALL TOGETHER by Israel's Messiah (Daniel 2:34-35,43-44)
    • Antichrist arises AFTER the Ten Kings (Daniel 7:24 cf. Daniel 2:42,44)
    • Antichrist arises from ONE of the FOUR divisions of the Greek empire (Daniel 8:8-9)
    • Antichrist, "Vile Person" (Daniel 11:21), emerges from the rivalry between the "King of the South" and the "King of the North" (Daniel 11:5-20)
  • Out of the four-fold division of the Greek empire (Daniel 8:8 cf. Daniel 11:4) emerge two prominent divisions, i.e. the "King of the North" and the "King of the South" (Daniel 11:5-6) as represented by the "thighs of brass" (Daniel 2:32,39) in the "Great Image" (Daniel 2:31)
    • The directions "North" and "South" are relative to the "Pleasant Land" (Daniel 8:9) also known as the "Glorious Land" (Daniel 11:16), i.e. Israel
    • The "King of the South" is Egypt (Daniel 11:7-9), i.e. Israel's southern neighbor
    • The "King of the North" is Assyria, i.e. Israel's northern neighbor - Israel is called the "third part" between Assyria and Egypt (Isaiah 19:23-25)
    • The time associated with the "thighs of brass" is the time of warfare between the southern Egyptian royal line of Ptolemy (Soter) and the northern Assyrian royal line of Seleucus (Nicator) over the land between them (Israel) - a rivalry which extended from the death of Alexander the Great until Rome's conquest of BOTH kingdoms in the first century BC
  • Israel did NOT recognize her "time of visitation" and so she has been laid waste by her enemies
    (Luke 19:43-44) and her "house has been left desolate" awaiting the time when she shall say "blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord" (Matthew 23:38-39)
    • In the meantime (last 2000 years), "blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in" (Romans 11:25) - after which time "there shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob" (Romans 11:26)
    • In this "present evil world (age)" (Galatians 1:4), it is the "One New Man", i.e. the "One Body" (Ephesians 2:15-16), that is the "he" who "withholdeth" the revelation of the "Man of Sin" (II Thessalonians 2:6 cf. II Thessalonians 2:1,3)
  • After the "catching up (Rapture)" (I Thessalonians 4:16-17) of the "Church, which is His Body"
    (Ephesians 1:22-23) - the warfare between the "King of the North" and the "King of the South" will be resumed (Daniel 11:5-20) as represented by the extension of the "legs of iron" from the "thighs of brass" (Daniel 2:32-33)
    • Thus, the Gentile "dispensation of grace" (Ephesians 3:1,2) concerning "THE MYSTERY" (Ephesians 3:3,6) sits between the PROPHESIED third "brass" kingdom (Daniel 2:39) and the PROPHESIED fourth "iron" kingdom (Daniel 2:40)
  • The prophesied warfare between the "King of the North" and the "King of the South" (Daniel 11:5-20) is what will give rise to the "vile person", i.e. Antichrist (Daniel 11:21)
    • The "King of the North" will be greater than the "King of South" (Daniel 11:5-6) and as Antichrist will be ultimately victorious over the "King of the South" (Daniel 11:40-44 cf. Daniel 8:23-24), but will finally be destroyed by Israel's Messiah (Daniel 11:45) - "he shall be broken without hand" by "the Prince of Princes" (Daniel 8:25)
    • In Israel's time of "tribulation" (Revelation 1:9), i.e. "the Day of the Lord" (Revelation 1:10), there will be "seven kings" (Revelation 17:9-10) of whom Antichrist will be the 6th king and who will be briefly deposed by the 7th king and then will come back as the 8th king (Revelation 17:10-11)
      • As the 6th king, Antichrist is "the Man of Sin" (II Thessalonians 2:3)
      • As the resurrected 6th king, i.e. the 8th king, Antichrist is "the Son of Perdition" (II Thessalonians 2:3 cf. John 17:12)
      • The "short space" (Revelation 17:10) occupied by the 7th king will be the brief time between the death and resurrection of the 6th king (Revelation 13:3-4 cf. Zechariah 11:17; Revelation 13:14-15)
    • Counting the kings, i.e. the "five" who "are fallen" (Revelation 17:10), i.e. the path to Antichrist:
      • 1st "King of the South" (Daniel 11:5)
      • 2nd "King of the South" (Daniel 11:7)
      • 1st "King of the North" (Daniel 11:6)
      • 2nd "King of the North" (Daniel 11:10)
      • 3rd "King of the North" (Daniel 11:20)
    • The "vile person", i.e. Antichrist (Daniel 11:21) is the 6th king - the "one" who NOW "is" (Revelation 17:10)

• Future Career of the Antichrist - Part 1 (Daniel 11:21-28)
  • The "vile person" (Daniel 11:21) is he whose "words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords" (Psalms 55:21)
    • Antichrist will come from very humble beginnings to whom "the honor of the kingdom (Israel)" is not given and, thus, is termed the "Little Horn" (Daniel 7:8; Daniel 8:9)
    • He will "obtain the kingdom (Israel) by flatteries" and speak "peaceably" to Israel (Daniel 11:21) with words "smoother than butter, but war was in his heart" (Psalms 55:21)
  • Ultimately, Antichrist will come in like a "flood" against Israel (Daniel 11:22 cf. Daniel 9:26) and they (Jews) who put their trust in him will be "overthrown" including Israel's high priest who is referred to as "the prince of the covenant" (Daniel 11:22 cf. Isaiah 28:15-18)
    • According to the covenant of the Law (Deuteronomy 31:9,26), the high priest is recognized as the ruler ("prince") of God's people (Acts 23:5 cf. Exodus 22:28)
  • Antichrist will "league" ("charm") Israel by deceit (Daniel 11:23) and "by peace shall destroy many" in Israel (Daniel 8:25)
    • As the "Little Horn" (Daniel 7:8; Daniel 8:9) he shall become strong with a "small people" (Daniel 11:23) and will become one "whose look was more stout than his fellows" (Daniel 7:20)
  • Antichrist will "enter peaceably" into the "fattest parts of the province" (Israel) and do what his fathers did NOT do, i.e. enrich Israel rather than plunder her (Daniel 11:24)
    • Corrupt Israel is described as a "whore" (Revelation 17:1) supported and adorned by the "Beast" (Revelation 17:3-4) and her abominations were responsible for shedding the blood of Israel's faithful (Revelation 17:5-6), i.e. the "woman clothed with the sun" (Revelation 12:1) and wrathfully persecuted by the "dragon" (Revelation 12:13-17)
    • The "whore" is said to represent "that great city" which is NOT named because of what it had become, i.e. "the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified" (Revelation 11:8 cf. Matthew 23:37; Isaiah 1:8-10; Jeremiah 23:14)
  • The "King of the North", i.e. Antichrist, "the Assyrian" whom the Lord says He will break "in My land" (Isaiah 14:24-26 cf. Daniel 8:24-25; Daniel 11:45), will "stir up his power and his courage against the King of the South" (Daniel 11:25)
    • He, i.e. the "King of the South", Egypt (Daniel 11:8-9), "shall not stand, for they shall forecast devices (contrive schemes) against him" (Daniel 11:25)
  • The people who will aid Antichrist in his victory over the "King of the South" will be "they that feed of the portion of his meat" (Daniel 11:26)
    • In Babylon, ONLY Daniel and his three friends stood apart from the rest of the captive Jewish nobility in NOT being defiled "with the portion of the king's meat" (Daniel 1:8,11-13) and were blessed by the True King (Daniel 1:14-15,19-20)
    • By way of contrast, there will be those who will trust in the "wisdom" and "understanding" of the one who is said to be "wiser than Daniel" (Ezekiel 28:3-4) and they will defile themselves with Antichrist's "prey, and spoil, and riches" (Daniel 11:24)
    • These helpers of Antichrist will be apostate Jews whom he will seduce "by flatteries" (Daniel 11:21) and with whom "he shall work deceitfully" (Daniel 11:23), i.e. "the prince of the host (the high priest)" and the "host (false Israel)" which "was given him" (Daniel 8:11-12)
  • The rival kings of the North and the South will behave deceitfully towards one another, but it will all be to no avail, "for yet the end shall be at the time appointed" (Daniel 11:27 cf. Daniel 11:35,40)
  • After his successful campaign againts the "King of the South", Antichrist will return to his native land with "great riches" and "his heart shall be against the holy covenant" (Daniel 11:28)
    • This turn of events will take place in "the midst of the week" (Daniel 9:27) when Antichrist will have "broken his covenant" (Psalms 55:20) and "shall put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him" (Isaiah 28:18)

• Future Career of the Antichrist - Part 2 (Daniel 11:29-45)
  • After Antichrist shall "return to his own land" (Daniel 11:28), "at the time appointed", he "shall come toward the south" (Daniel 11:29)
    • However, this campaign against the "King of the South" will not result in victory "as the former" or "as the latter" (Daniel 11:29)
    • Antichrist is greatly triumphant in both "the former" camaign against the "King of the South" (Daniel 11:25-26) and "the latter" camaign against the "King of the South" (Daniel 11:42-43)
  • The reason given for Antichrist's defeat "at the time appointed" (Daniel 11:29) is his being "grieved" due to "the ships of Chittim" which "shall come against him" (Daniel 11:30)
    • Balaam's prophecy concerning "the latter days" (Numbers 24:14) reveals that "ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Assur, and he shall afflict Eber" (Numbers 24:24)
    • "Chittim" (also spelled "Kittim") was a son of Javan (Genesis 10:4) who in turn was a son of Noah's son, Japheth (Genesis 10:2)
    • According to Flavius Josephus (the Roman Jowish historian), the descendants of Kitt (Kittim) settled in a land called Kition which is known today as the island of Cyprus
    • According to the Rand-McNally Bible Atlas, one of the cities in Cyprus was called Kittium
    • Assur is a reference to Assyria of which its main city, Nineveh, was "builded" by Nimrod who was a son of Cush who in turn was a son of Noah's son, Ham (Genesis 10:6,8,11)
    • Eber was a grandson of Arphaxad who in turn was a son of Noah's son, Shem (Genesis 10:21,24), who is said to be "the father of ALL the children of Eber" (Genesis 10:21) and from whom descended Abraham (Genesis 11:10-26)
    • Thus, Antichrist called "the Assyrian" (II Thessalonians 2:8 cf. Isaiah 30:31) and who is descended from Ham and his Hebrew allies (Daniel 11:24,26) who are descended from Shem, will briefly suffer defeat at the hands of the descendants from Japheth (Daniel 11:30)
    • The word "Eber" means "the region beyond" and the word "Hebrew" means "to pass over" and, thus, points to Israel who "shall NOT be reckoned among the nations" (Numbers 23:8-10) for God "in the days of old" (Deuteronomy 32:7) did set the BOUNDS of the nations "according to the NUMBER of Israel" (Deuteronomy 32:8)

      • "Table of the Nations" (Genesis 10:1,32)

        Japheth	Noah's eldest son	European nations (Genesis 10:2-5)	14
        Ham	Noah's middle son	African nations (Genesis 10:6-20)	30
        Shem	Noah's youngest son	Asian nations (Genesis 10:21-31)	26
        Jacob	Israel	"ALL the souls of the house of Jacob" (Genesis 46:27)	70

      • Israel is the land bridge which connects the three continents of Europe, Africa, and Asia
  • After his defeat, Antichrist will "return" (from the dead) and "have indignation against the holy covenant" (Daniel 11:30), i.e. betray his "confirmation (support)" of the Mosaic covenant (Daniel 9:27) of "the daily sacrifice" (Daniel 8:11-12 cf. Daniel 8:23-25)
    • Antichrist's resurrection from the dead will be the result of Satan's opening of "the bottomless pit" to allow for the ascent of the demonic army of locusts at the head of which is Antichrist (Revelation 11:7 cf. Revelation 9:1-3,11)
    • Antichrist will have the help of rebellious Israel ("them that forsake the holy covenant") with whom Antichrist will "have intelligence", i.e. he will "fix his attention" on those with whom he will have cooperation (Daniel 11:30)
    • It is these false Jews (Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9) who will lend their support to Antichrist, i.e. they will be the "arms (strength)" which "shall stand on his (Antichrist's) part" (Daniel 11:31 cf. Isaiah 28:15)
  • Antichrist shall "take away the daily sacrifice" (Daniel 11:31 cf. Daniel 8:11-12) and replace it with "the ABOMINATION that maketh desolate" (Daniel 11:31 cf. Matthew 24:15)
    • An "ABOMINATION" in the OT is the designation for an "IDOL" (I Kings 11:5,7 cf. II Kings 23:13)
    • Antichrist is called "the IDOL shepherd" (Zechariah 11:17), because he will have an "IMAGE" made to himself which shall have "life" and "speak" and enforce universal worship to itself (Revelation 13:14-15)
      • Nebuchadnezzar's "IMAGE of gold" in "the plain of Dura" (Daniel 3:1) erected to his glory (Daniel 2:37-38) to which he demanded universal worship (Daniel 3:4-7) typified "the ABOMINATION that maketh desolate" (Daniel 11:31)
    • Antichrist's "IMAGE" will be placed in the Temple where he will be enthroned and worshipped as God (II Thessalonians 2:3-4 cf. Daniel 11:36-37)
      • He will pose as the One Who "shall be a priest upon His Throne" (Zechariah 6:13) by making "fire come down from heaven" (Revelation 13:13) in imitation of Elijah's test of proving who is God (I Kings 18:21) by "the fire of the Lord" falling from heaven and consuming the sacrifice (Revelation 13:13 cf. I Kings 18:37-39; Leviticus 9:23-24)
  • The FAITHLESS Jewish MASSES who "do wickedly (lawlessly) against the covenant" will be "corrupted (polluted)" by Antichrist, but the FAITHFUL Jewish REMNANT - "the people that do know their God" shall be "strong (enduring)" and effective workers for the True Christ (Daniel 11:32)
    • The "HOST" of Jews given to Antichrist will "cast down" the sanctuary and "cast down the truth to the ground" (Daniel 8:11-12) and, thus, will "have chosen their own WAYS, and their soul delighteth in their ABOMINATIONS" (Isaiah 66:3-4 cf. Matthew 24:15; Daniel 11:31) - they will be like their idolatrous fathers of old (Jeremiah 11:9-10)
    • The FAITHFUL Jewish REMNANT will be "VIRGINS" NOT having been TAINTED by the "FORNICATION" of IDOLATRY (Revelation 14:4 cf. Revelation 2:14,20) and wll therefore be "WITHOUT FAULT before the Throne of God" and, thus, will be like their father David whose heart was "PERFECT with the Lord his God" (Revelation 14:5 cf. I Kings 11:4-6)
  • The FAITHFUL Jewish REMNANT will "UNDERSTAND" and "INSTRUCT MANY" (Daniel 11:33)
    • Judah's two great SPIRITUAL REFORMERS in the OT TYPIFIED the kind of MINISTRY which will be performed by this FAITHFUL Jewish REMNANT "in the LATTER DAYS" (Daniel 10:14):
      • Hezekiah (II Chronicles 29:1-5)
      • Josiah (II Chronicles 34:1-5)
    • This FAITHFUL Jewish REMNANT will pay dearly for their MINISTRY at the hands of their FAITHLESS BRETHREN (Daniel 11:33 cf. Isaiah 66:5; Matthew 10:32-36; Revelation 12:10-11) as did Israel's PROPHETS in the OT (Matthew 23:29-32)
  • He who will EVEN GIVE "a LITTLE HELP" to the FAITHFUL Jewish REMNANT Daniel 11:34) "shall NOT LOSE his REWARD" Mark 9:41)
  • SOME, but NOT ALL of the FAITHFUL Jewish REMNANT "shall FALL, to TRY them, and to PURGE, and to MAKE them WHITE" Daniel 11:35)
    • Israel's TRIBULATION MARTYRS arrayed in "WHITE ROBES" (Revelation 6:9-11) will have their ROBES "WASHED in the BLOOD of the LAMB" (Revelation 7:13-14) and will "REIGN with CHRIST" in the MILLENIUM (Revelation 20:4)
    • Israel's (Revelation 12:1 cf. Genesis 37:9-11) HIDDEN TRIBULATION REMNANT will be MIRACULOUSLY NOURISHED and PRESERVED as was Israel of old (Revelation 12:6,13-14 cf. Exodus 16:31-33) unto her FINAL REPENTANCE and CLEANSING at her MESSIAH"S RETURN (Zechariah 12:8-10 cf. Zechariah 13:1-2)
  • Antichrist (Israel's FINAL oppressor) "shall do ACCORDING TO HIS WILL" (Daniel 11:36) as also was true of Israel's PAST oppressors (Daniel 8:4; Daniel 11:3)
    • Antichrist will singularly "EXALT himself" and "MAGNIFY himself ABOVE EVERY god" (Daniel 11:36), "so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God" (II Thessalonians 2:4)
    • Antichrist "shall speak MARVELLOUS things against the God of gods" (Daniel 11:36) opening "his mouth in BLASPHEMY against God" (Revelation 13:6):
      • "to BLASPHEME His Name" (Revelation 13:6) by claiming for himself the Unfolded Name of Jehovah (Revelation 17:8) revealed through resurrection: "I AM that I AM" (Exodus 3:14; Exodus 6:3); "I WAS dead" and "I AM alive FOREVERMORE" (Revelation 1:18)
      • "to BLASPHEME His Tabernacle" (Revelation 13:6) by placing in it "the ABOMINATION that maketh desolate" (Matthew 24:15 cf. Daniel 11:31), i.e. his "IMAGE" (Revelation 13:14)
      • "to BLASPHEME them that dwell in Heaven" (Revelation 13:6), i.e those "in Heaven" (Revelation 15:1) who "had gotten the VICTORY OVER THE BEAST" (Revelation 15:2)
    • Antichrist "shall prosper till the INDIGNATION be accomplished" (Daniel 11:36), i.e. the "GREAT TRIBULATION" (Matthew 24:21-22; Revelation 7:14) during which time "power was given unto him to continue forty and two months" (Revelation 13:5)
  • Antichrist shall NOT "regard the God of his FATHERS" (Daniel 11:37), i.e. the "God Who at sundry times ... spake in time past unto the FATHERS by the prophets" (Hebrews 1:1) - Israel's God
    • Antichrist shall also NOT regard "the desire of WOMEN" (Daniel 11:37), i.e. the pagan FEMALE diety identified as the "QUEEN of heaven" and worshipped by women as the goddess of fertility
      (Jeremiah 7:18;Jeremiah 44:17) in opposition to the worship of He Who is the True Giver of life (Acts 17:24-25) - it should be noted that when an appeal was made to exalt the Lord's mother, the Lord dismissed it (Luke 11:27-28)
    • Antichrist will "MAGNIFY himself ABOVE ALL" gods (Daniel 11:37; II Thessalonians 2:4)
  • Antichrist shall "honor the god of FORCES (FORTRESSES) ... a god whom his fathers knew NOT" (Daniel 11:38)
    • Antichrist shall receive from the hand of Satan (Revelation 13:1-4) that which the True Christ refused from his hand (Luke 4:5-8)
  • Antichrist shall with " a STRANGE god" (Daniel 11:39) do that which the True God forbade, i.e. "divide the land for gain" (Daniel 11:39 cf. Leviticus 25:23; Numbers 36:7; I Kings 21:1-3)
    • Ahab's action concerning the "VINEYARD of Naboth" (I Kings 21:18) is a TYPE of Antichrist's action concerning the LAND of Israel (Daniel 11:39)
    • Just as the Lord's response to Ahab was judgment (I Kings 21:19), so will it most assuredly be with Antichrist (Daniel 11:45) and the "multitudes" who do his bidding (Joel 3:1-2,14 cf. Revelation 16:13-14,16)
  • "At the time of the end" (Daniel 11:40), when it shall be "the day of the Lord's anger" (Zephaniah 2:2-3), "the King of the South" (Egypt) (Daniel 11:8-9) shall attack "the King of the North" (Daniel 11:40), i.e. Assyria, Israel's northern neighbor (Isaiah 19:23-24)
    • In response, "the King of the North" will "come against him (Egypt) like a whirlwind" and he (Assyria) "shall enter into the countries, and shall oveflow and pass over" (Daniel 11:40)
    • Egypt and her allies, Libya and Ethiopia, will be "overthrown" and plundered (Daniel 11:42-43) by the Assyrian, i.e. Antichrist - who will be destroyed by the Lord at "the brightness (fire) of His coming" (II Thessalonians 1:7-8; II Thessalonians 2:8 cf. Isaiah 30:31,33)
    • Three countries "shall escape out of his hand" - Edom, Moab, Ammon (Daniel 11:41), for these countries are in league with Antichrist against the Lord's people, i.e. Israel (Psalms 83:3-7)
      • Israel's hidden Tribulation remnant will have "a place prepared of God" (Revelation 12:6) in Moab
        (Isaiah 16:4) where she will be protected from the rage and fury of Antichrist (Revelation 12:14-17) and from the Lord's judgment upon His enemies (Isaiah 26:20-21)
      • These three countries (Edom, Moab, Ammon) will ALL be destroyed at the Lord's coming (Numbers 24:17-18; Isaiah 11:12-14; Zephaniah 2:8-9)
    • While successfully engaged in subduing Egypt and her southern allies (Daniel 11:43), Antichrist is troubled by "tidings out of the east and out of the north" and goes "forth with great fury to destroy" (Daniel 11:44)
      • En route, in his destructive path, Antichrist "shall plant (spread out) the tabernacles (his palatial tent) ... in the glorious holy mountain (Zion)" and there he "shall come to his end" (Daniel 11:45)
      • The Lord has "SWORN" and "PURPOSED" to "break the Assyrian (Antichrist) in My Land" (Isaiah 14:24-26)
      • Antichrist shall "stand up against the Prince of Princes; but he shall be broken WITHOUT HAND" (Daniel 8:25) "and NONE shall help him" (Daniel 11:45)

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Daniel 11:1-4

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Daniel 11:5-20

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Daniel 11:21-28

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Daniel 11:29-45

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