Daniel 8: [23] And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
[24] And his power shall be mighty, but not by his
own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise,
and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
[25] And through his policy also he shall cause craft
to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace
shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but
he shall be broken without hand.
“In Daniel 11, he tells you which one of the four divisions
of the Greek Empire the Antichrist is going to come out of.
Daniel 11:4: [4] 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, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall
be plucked up, even for others beside those.
Here’s going to be the two legs in the image in Daniel 2. Daniel 11:5-6:
[5] And the king of the south shall be strong, and
one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his
dominion shall be a great dominion.
[6] And in the end of years they shall join
themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the
king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of
the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and
they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in
these times.
“You move from verse 5 to 6 and you’ve moved from the past
into the future. From verse 6 on, we’re no longer in the past. Now, every commentator
you read—Scofield, Larkin, Sir Robert Anderson, all of them—they put verse 5
all the way down to verse 21 in the past because verse 21 is where the Antichrist
shows up.
“I’m saying to you that between verse 6 and 21 is not the
past; it’s things that are going to take place in this period of time right
here. If you want to know some of the details of what’s going to be going on
here politically and so forth in the Middle East during that period of time,
that passage right there is going to read like the daily newspaper.
“There’s a conflict back and forth between the king of the south (the king of Egypt) and the king of the north (king of Syria).
"In verse 15
there’s a king of the north: [15] So the king of the north shall come, and cast up
a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not
withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to
withstand.
“When you come down to verse 20 there’s the second king of
the north and then when you come to verse 21, that’s the Antichrist:
[20] Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of
taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed,
neither in anger, nor in battle.
[21] And in his estate shall stand up a vile person,
to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in
peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
“So the 70th Week’s going to begin in verse 21. There’s
going to be three kings of the north that will be dealt with during this period.
Obviously there’s a gap here in prophecy that prophecy fills up with details in
the Book of Daniel.”
(new post tomorrow)
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