Daniel 11 & 12

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=35 BGCOLOR="#000099" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Daniel 11 & 12</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Beast of Revelation">Beast of Revelation</A>   |   <A HREF="id13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction">Introduction</A>   |   <A HREF="id14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel 2">Daniel 2</A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel 7">Daniel 7</A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel 8">Daniel 8</A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Antiochus Epiphanes">Antiochus Epiphanes</A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel 9">Daniel 9</A>   |   <B>Daniel 11 & 12</B>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Revelation 13">Revelation 13</A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Revelation 17">Revelation 17</A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Revelation 18">Revelation 18</A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wrath of the Lamb">Wrath of the Lamb</A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Assyrian">The Assyrian</A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chart of the Beast">Chart of the Beast</A>   |   <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography">Bibliography</A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=445 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> From Daniel's earlier visions we now know what this 'little horn' will do. But how do all these events fit together? Daniel 11 and 12 provides an outline of the progression of events in the 'last days'.</div> <bR> <div> What follows in an attempt to correlate the information from the previous visions, with a consideration of "the former things, what they were" (Isaiah 41:22). We hope the scenario is close to the future reality. We appreciate that the actual events as they are fulfilled may vary in chronological order to what we have outlined. The aim of this booklet is to provide a basis to be able to identify the events as they happen.</div> <bR> <div> <B>THE CLOSE OF THIS AGE</B></div> <bR> <div> "At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, and pass through. He shall enter the Glorious Land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape from his hand; Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of Ammon" (Daniel 11:40-41).</div> <bR> <div> A powerful Islamic federation, with its probable centre in Egypt, led by the king of the South will attack the empire of the 'little horn' - the king of the North. This may be the beginning of the 1335 days of Daniel 12:12. (Alternatively this attack may begin immediately after the assassination of the Antichrist, and just prior to his 'resurrection').</div> <bR> <div> The 'little horn' will counter-attack. On the drive to Egypt the 'little horn' may stop in Jerusalem. It may be that when he is there he is assassinated. (An alternative scenario is that the Antichrist is assassinated in Europe, beginning the 1335 days, a type of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, which sparked WWI). If he is killed in Jerusalem it would be another parody of Jesus Christ. After perhaps three days and three nights he will be revived and will proclaim himself 'god'. He may then put a stop to the 'daily sacrifices' and set up the 'abomination of desolation'  - may be an altar - beginning the 1290 days of Daniel 12:11. (An image or statue of himself may or may not be set up at this time). At this point the 'king of the North' may sit in the temple of God "showing himself that he is God" (2 Thessalonians 2:4). (Lucifer/Satan his spiritual antitype attempt to do the same in heaven - Isaiah 14:13). This first visit of the 'little horn' corresponds to Antiochus's personal attack on Jerusalem. But on this visit the abomination of desolation is set up as opposed to the second attack on Jerusalem led by Apollonius in the time of Antiochus.</div> <bR> <div> "He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. He shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; also the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall follow at his heels" (Daniel 11:42-43).</div> <bR> <div> The king of the North will most likely enter personally into Egypt with his army; this is the "latter" expedition of Daniel 11:29, corresponding to verses 42 & 43 of the same chapter. This campaign will follow the setting up of the 'abomination of desolation'. This will be the time to follow Jesus Christ's instruction: "Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place flee to the mountains..." (Matthew 24:15-20).</div> <bR> <div> "But news from the east and the north shall trouble him, therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many" (Daniel 11:44).</div> <bR> <div> While the 'little horn' is in Egypt there may be an uprising of the Jews at a result of the profaning of the temple by this 'king of the North'. This would parallel Jason's attempt to ouster Menelaus when there was <B>the report that Antiochus had died in Egypt</B> - this in the near-future sense of prophecy would be a typical 'cutting off' of Antiochus. Then the 'little horn' will send one of his generals to punish Jerusalem and the Jews (Daniel 9:26b). This would then appear to be the beginning of the "time, times, and half a time" (1260 days) of Daniel 12:7. (Daniel 11:44 also has a secondary fulfilment two and a half years later).</div> <bR> <div> While the "people of the prince" are dealing with Jerusalem the 'little horn' may be occupied with the invasion and conquest of the British Isles and the North American continent (Daniel 11:24). His allies may be dealing with Australia and New Zealand at this time<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Verdana" >.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> After consolidating his empire, which will now include all of Europe, the British Isles and most of North America, 'the king of the North' may command all his subjects to worship him as god through a religious system centred on him. This political-religious system will be a means to unifying the 'little horn's' empire. This will be in effect be the cult of the emperor coming full circle and taken to its extreme.</div> <bR> <div> Antiochus provides the type as we saw earlier. After Apollonius had taken Jerusalem, Antiochus wrote to his subjects, for all to conform to the Greek religion. Both 1 & 2 Maccabees "mark as a new phase the arrival of instructions from Antiochus for the abolition of the Temple cult and of the observance of the Law, and the substitution of pagan cults" (Emil Schurer, <I>The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ - 175 BC - AD 135</I>, page 155). (cp. Daniel 3).</div> <bR> <div> "How long will the vision be, concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host of be trampled under foot?" And he said to me, "For <B>two thousand three hundred days</B>; then the sanctuary will be cleansed" (Daniel 8:13-14).</div> <bR> <div> It appears that in the end-time the 'people of the prince' attack Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1260 days. This may be the beginning for "the host" to be trodden under foot" (Dan 8:13). If there is to an end-time decree or similar to conform to a religious system worshipping the 'king of the North', to follow after the initial conquest of Jerusalem, then their may be an interval before the 'sanctuary' is also "to be trodden under foot" - that is destroyed.</div> <bR> <div> "And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood" (Daniel 9:26b).</div> <bR> <div> If we take the 2300 "days" (literally: 'evenings and mornings') of Daniel 8:14 to be 1150 days - two sacrifices per day, one in the morning and one in the evening, giving a total of 2300 sacrifices over 1150 days - therefore, both the host and the sanctuary will be cast down for around 3 years and two month. This would be 110 days after the initial taking of Jerusalem.</div> <bR> <div> (The 1150 days is in contrast to the 1093 days from when the sacrificing of swine on the Greek altar on the 25th Chislev (December 16) 167 BC to when the temple was rededicated and daily sacrifices were restored on 25th of Chislev (December 14) 164 BC). (Dating as used by H.W. Honer, <I>Maccabees</I>, International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Volume 3, page 198). [The interperetation of the 2300 "days" will be revised with another scenario].</div> <bR> <div> "And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain" (Daniel 11:45).</div> <bR> <div> With the city and sanctuary destroyed by his "people" (Daniel 9:26), (this would appear to be the antityipical fulfilment of Matthew 24:2 - as the lower stones of the 'Wailing Wall' of the Second Temple, are still on top of another), the 'little horn' will then come to Jerusalem and 'plant the tents of his palace' on "the holy hill of delight...[which] is without doubt the mountain on which stood the temple of Jerusalem" (C.F. Keil, <I>Daniel</I>, KD, p.810).</div> <bR> <div> "...planting a tent, probably with reference to the great palace-like tent of the oriental ruler, whose poles must be stuck very deep into the earth...These tents were surrounded by a multitude of smaller tents for the guards and servants, a circumstance which explains the use of the plural" (ibid.).</div> <bR> <div> Jerusalem will be a new city. This parallels the rebuilding of the city under the Roman emperor Hadrian in 135 AD - a type of the 'little horn':</div> <bR> <div> "Hadrian relentlessly carried through to completion his plan to transform ruined Jerusalem into a Greek <I>polis</I>. He buried the hollows of the old in rubble to level the site. Outside the limits he removed the debris to get at and excavate the rock below to provide the huge ashlars for the public buildings he set up on the levelled site" (Paul Johnson, <I>A History of the Jews</I>, pages 142-143).</div> <bR> <div> The city Hadrian built was a pagan city called Aelia Capitolina. It had "a pagan altar, dedicated to Jupiter whose high priest Hadrian was" (Solomon Grayzel, <I>A History of the Jews</I>, pages 174-175).</div> <bR> <div> Jerusalem was a pagan city under Antiochus and Hadrian setting the pattern for the future. The little horn's paganization will be taken one step further.</div> <bR> <div> The headquarters of the empire of the Antichrist will now be in Jerusalem until the return of Jesus Christ. The city will probably have a new pagan temple for the new god. The city will also have a new figurative name, as we will see in Revelation 17.</div> <bR> <div> With this background we will now look at the Who and What of the Beast of Revelation.</div> <bR> <div> <B>NOTE - POSSIBLE SCENARIO</B></div> <bR> <div> Daniel 11:21 begins, and basically continues to the end of the book of Daniel, the telescoping of the careers of Antiochus and his end-time counterpart. Daniel 11:21 describes, at a minimum the rise of Antiochus in the Seleucid kingdom. Verses 22-24 appear to describe Antiochus's first campaign against Egypt. In accordance with the semi-poetical way of relating information verses 25-28b appear to provide more detail on this campaign.</div> <bR> <div> The details of verses 22 to 24 may only refer to Antiochus in type depending how the actions of Antiochus are interpreted from history.</div> <bR> <div> Antiochus's first campaign against Egypt is a type of a yet future campaign of the king of the North:  "At the appointed time he shall return and go toward the south; but it shall not be like the former <the first campaign> or the latter <yet future>" (Daniel 11:29; with 11:40). It is most likely that there is an antitypical fulfilment to verses 22-24 and that they are applicable to a yet future 'latter' campaign not only against Egypt but also against "Jacob".</div> <bR> <div> "He shall enter peacefully, ("unexpectedly: i.e. in a time of careless security" - E. W. Bullinger, <I>Companion Bible</I>, p.1203), even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers; he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches" (Daniel 11:24). This parallels a statement, later in Daniel 11, about the end-time king of the North: "and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain" (Daniel 11:39).</div> <bR> <div> This future dividing of the land for gain may be in the 1260 day period which begins when the 'little horn' "shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many" (Daniel 11:44). This period is described as "a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time" (Daniel 12:1).</div> <bR> <div> A contemporary of Daniel wrote of this time: "Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, But he shall be saved out of it" (Jeremiah 31:7).</div> <bR> <div> We saw earlier that the Jews are only one portion of the descendants of Jacob, and that a major part of Jacob, generally unknown to them, comprise the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples living in the United States, the British Isles, and the British Commonwealth nations.</div> <bR> <div> When the 'king of the North', the Assyrian/German leader of a soon coming European superpower, sends his prince to attack Jerusalem, after a successful invasion of Egypt, he, along with his allies, will invade and conquer the lands of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples:</div> <bR> <div> "...the prince of the covenant [a leader of the United States, and/or a member of the British royal family - the former Edward VIII provides a type. The Nazis had a "fanciful plan" to remake Edward, then duke of Windsor, "king and use him against the established government in England" (EBritannica, <I>Edward VIII</I>)]. And after the league is made with him (around the same time the covenant is made with the Jews?, Daniel 9:27) he shall act deceitfully, for he shall become strong with a small number of people (the Quebecans in North America and/or the Irish in the British Isles?). He shall enter peacefully (Bullinger: unexpectedly), even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers; he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches;..." (Daniel 11:22-24).</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Revelation 13">Next Page</A>            <A HREF="id19_m.htm" TITLE="Daniel 11 12">Top of Page</A>            <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel 9">Previous Page</A>            <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Beast of Revelation">Beast Index</A>            <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Future Watch">Home Page</A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>