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kings"-in the days of these ten
nations or groups of nations that
shall ,
IN OVR TIME,
resurrect
briefly the Roman Empire- notice
what shall happen:
" ... shall the God of heaven set
up a kingdom, which shall never be
destroyed ... but it shall break in
pieces and consume all these king–
doms, and it shall stand for ever" !
Ves, in OUR TIME!
Now here we have described FOUR
universal world empires-the
only
four that ever existed! Revelation
13 and 17 show that, after the fall
of the original Roman Empire,
there would be 1O revivals- SEVEN
of wbich would be ruled over by a
gentile CHURCH- the "daughter"
of ancient BABYLON- a church
claiming to be Christian, but actu–
ally named by God " MYSTERY,
BABYLON the great"- or, more
plainly, BABYLONIAN MYSTERIES!
Six of those have come and gone.
The seventh is now forming- the
last, final
brief
resurrection of the
Roman Empire by ten European
groups or nations. These are re–
vealed in Daniel 2 as the ten toes
of iron and clay mixed.
In tbeir days- and they shall last
but a
very
short space, possibly no
more than two to three-and-a-half
years- shall the Goo OF HEAVEN
SET UP
A KINGDOM
that shall
never be dest royed.
This, then, shall be THE KING–
DOM OF GOD!
That prophecy of Daniel 2, com–
bined with those of Revelation 13
and 17, alone are a convincing
PROOF of the existence of God and
the authenticity and authority of
the Holy Bible.
But there is much more consti–
tuting incontrovertible proof.
Longest, Most Detaíled Prophecy
in the Bible
Next we come to the detailed
prophecy of the 11th chapter of
Daniel.
It is one of the most amazing
prophecies in the Bible.
It
is most
specific, describing bistorical
events, up to the present, in more
detail than any other prophecy. It
is the longest prophecy in the
Bible.
The prelude is found in the 1Otb
chapter of the book of Daniel. The
26
prophecy carne to Daniel in the
third year of the reign of Cyrus,
king of the Persian Empire (Dan.
10:1) . A "man," apparently the
archangel Gabriel (Dan. 9:21 ), ap–
pears befare Daniel, to make him
understand what shall befall God's
people in these present "latter
days" (10:14).
The first verse of the 11th chap–
ter is a continuation from the last
verse of the 1Oth chapter. The an–
gel says to Daniel: "Behold, there
shall stand up yet three kings in
Persia; and the fourth shall be far
richer than they all: and by his
strength through his riches he shall
stir up all against the realm of
Grecia. And a mighty king shall
stand up, that shall rule with great
dominion , and do accordi ng to his
will" (Dan. 11 :2-3).
Actually there were 12 more
kings in the Persian Empire, but
only the first four following Cyrus
were of importance for the purpose
of this prophecy. They were Cam–
byses, pseudo-Smerdis, Darius and
Xerxes.
It
was the last, or Xerxes,
wbo was the richest of all and
stirred up war with Greece.
Then King Pbilip of Macedonia
planned a great war to conquer the
Persian Empire, with an army
made up mostly of Grecians. He
died befare the plans were com–
pleted. But his son, Alexander tbe
Great, took over his plans, and in–
vaded Persia. He met the Persian
army at tbe Battle of Issus, 333 s.c.
(Dan. 8:2, 5-6). Then he swept
down into Egypt, and then to a
final crusbing defeat of the Persian
Empire at the Battle ·of Arbella,
331 a.c., after wbich Alexander
marched . on a conquest clear to
India, sweeping all befare him.
Notice now verse 4 of the
propbecy: "And when he shall
stand up, his kingdom shall be bro–
ken, 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 sball be plucked up,
even for otbers beside those."
How marvelously-how accu–
rately-that carne to pass. We
quote from one of the au.thoritative
English-language histories pub–
lished in the last century,
A Man–
ual of Ancient History
(Student
Series) by Rawlinson: "Cut off un-
expectedly in the vigor of early
manbood [the 33rd year of bis age,
June, 323 B.c.], he [Alexander] left
no inheritor, either of his power or
of his projects" (p. 237). The Em–
pire was left leaderless and in con–
fusion, but out of this emerged , by
the year 301 s.c., four divisions,
just as propbesied , as a result of a
division of the Empire into four
divisions
~y
Alexander's generaJs.
They were:
l . Ptol emy (Soter), ruling
Egypt, part of Syria and Judea.
2. Seleucus (Nicator), ruling
Syria, Babylonia and territory east
to India.
3. Lysimacbus, ruling Asia Mi–
nar.
4. Cassander, ruling Greece and
Macedonia.
Thus was the prophecy of verse
4 fulfilled to the letter.
The "King of the North" and the
"King of the South"
Now notice what follows. From
here the prophecy foretells the ac–
tivities only of two of these four
divisions: Egypt , called "king of
the south," because it is south of
Jerusalem; and the Syrian king–
dom, the king of the north, just
north of Judea. It is because the
Holy Land passed back and forth
between those two divisions, and
because their different wars were
principally over possession of
Judea, that the prophecy is con–
cerned with them. Here is verse 5:
"And tbe king of the south
fEgypt] shall be strong, and one of
his princes; and he shall be strong
above him, and have dominion; his
dominion shall be a great domin–
ion." In bistory, we learn that the
original Ptolemy I, called Soter,
became st rong and powerful, devel–
oping Egypt beyond the greatest
dreams of Alexander. One of bis
princes , or generals, Seleucus
Nicator, also became strong and
powerful. And, in 312 B.C., taking
advantage of Ptolemy's being tied
up in a war, he established himself
in Syria, and assumed the diadem
as king.
Verse 6 says, "And in the end of
years they sball join tbemselves
together; for the king' s daughter of
the south shall come to the king of
tbe north to make an agreement
[margin, "rights" or "equitable
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