Daniel 11 and Revelation 11 is very important to a correct understanding of Revelation 17 therefore we will take this study very carefully yet concisely. Daniel 2, 7,8 and 11 are parallel. So that Daniel 11 presents a more concise summary of the prophecies of Daniel.
Daniel 11
It is important to note that from here on it successive world power takes the title "King of the North." This is because national Israel have rejected the Messiah and the promises now belong to the Church. Therefore application is not literal but Spiritual.
Important Points
Revelation 11 looks at the development of systematized political atheism in Europe (France) near the "time of the end." This will be the focus of our next study.
Daniel 11
- Daniel 11:1-4 Description of Medo Persia. Introduction of Greece under Alexander and its subsequent divisions into 4 parts after his death.
- Daniel 11:5-13 The settling down of the Greecian empire into the Northern Selucid Kingdom and the Southern Ptolemaic Kingdom. The frequent military and diplomatic battles between the two kingdoms. The "King of the North" included areas occupied by ancient Babylon and was geographically larger and militarily stronger than the King of the South." which included Egypt as its main province.
It is important to note that from here on it successive world power takes the title "King of the North." This is because national Israel have rejected the Messiah and the promises now belong to the Church. Therefore application is not literal but Spiritual.
- Daniel 11:14 Introduced the Pagan Roman empire "the robbers of thy people" as the new King of the North.
- Daniel 11:15-29 Describes the long history of the Pagan Roman empire. note verse 20 and its parallel Luke 2:1.
- Daniel 11:30 Describes the development of the papacy which now takes the title "King of the North." Notice the last part of verse 30 which describes the evolution of the papacy through a union of paganism and apostate Christianity. (them that forsake the holy covenant)
- Daniel 11:31-39 Describes the 1260 years of Papal Roman Catholic dominance in Europe. A period noted for 1) trampling down the doctrine of the high Priestly ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, verse 31; 2) the long periods of inhuman killings and persecuting God's people, verse 33; 3) the blasphemous self-exaltation of the papacy, verse 36; (Paul quotes verse 36 in 2 Thessalonians 2:4)
- Daniel 11:40 Introduces the precise point in time the "time of the end" the end of the 1260 papal dominance (Daniel 12:4,6,7) the year 1798.
- Daniel 11:42- Daniel 12:1 Introduces the final attack of the papacy in its effort for world conquest. The final battle in the struggle over the character and Government of God. Force verse Love.
Important Points
- Daniel 11:40 the "King of the North" is the papacy. By the time we reach the latter verses the King of the North embraces the Mother Harlot and daughter of Revelation 17 (united false Protestantism).
- Daniel 11:40 the King of the South" is no longer national literal Egypt but means "spiritual Egypt". This is seen by comparing with Revelation 11:8.
The essential spirit of Egypt was a denial of the rue God and open contempt for His name (Exodus 5:2). This is Atheism. - Daniel 11:40 is a description of the event in 1798 that occurred at the "time of the end" in which atheism "the King of the South" pushed at the "King of the North" the papacy. In 1798 a french general Berthier arrested Pope Pious VI and took him prisoner thereby ending the 1260 year papal European dominance. The prevailing philosophy of France at the time was atheism, "spiritual Egypt" as it is called in revelation 11:8.
Revelation 11 looks at the development of systematized political atheism in Europe (France) near the "time of the end." This will be the focus of our next study.