Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Daniel 11 - Warring Kings of North and South

 

Daniel 11 – Warring Kings of North and South

 

Daniel predicts a long war between the North and the South. The Southern Kingdom is known as Egypt and the Northern as Syria. Because Israel was situated between the two kingdoms, they were often caught in the middle with the war taking place on their land.

 

Antiochus became the ruler of the South. He was an evil man with no regard for God and his people. His invasion of Egypt involved much loss of life. When he turned North, he vented his anger on Israel. Rome came in and defeated Antiochus which made him so angry that he slaughtered multitudes of God’s children and raped and killed many women. Those who were against God’s covenant supported him, but the true people of God opposed him.

 

In the future, the Antichrist will come and consider himself under no authority, setting himself up higher than the gods. Speaking blasphemies and demanding worship of him until Christ comes in the end of tribulation and defeats him. The god of fortresses demonstrates his pride in his military might. The Antichrist will also worship gold and silver, obtained by oppressing others. Major military conflict will announce the end of the age. His victories and power will increase until he has control of the wealth of these nations. Yet his global empire will slowly disintegrate with the word coming out of the east and the north, forces that challenge his claim to global dominion. These will culminate in the forces of Satan, under the direction of the Antichrist, fighting the forces of Satan from the East to the North and marching to their destruction at the Battle of Armageddon.

 

While these forces are battling each other the judgments of God (Rev. 6-19) will fall on the earth. There has never been or will there ever be, a time of greater trouble and persecution for Israel, when all of Satan’s fury is poured out on the nation. Let us continue to pray for Israel.

 

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J, Vernon McGee Through the Bible

 

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