Daniel Book Chapter 13: Two Kings in Conflict Summary Chart of Daniel 11:1-19

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1 Daniel Book Chapter 13: Two Kings in Conflict Summary Chart of Daniel 11:1-19 There will yet be three kings standing up for Persia Cyrus the Great Cambyses II Darius I And the fourth one will rouse up everything against the kingdom of Greece Xerxes I invades Greece with a colossal army of 2,317,610 men only to meet terrible defeat And a mighty king will certainly stand up and rule with extensive dominion Alexander the Great conquers Persia and extends domain all the way to India, becoming the dominant world power But when he will have stood up, his kingdom will be broken and divided toward the four winds Alexander dies at age 33 in 323 BCE; his kingdom is divided among his four generals: Seleucus I Nicator Lysimachus Cassander Ptolemy I - Lysimachus takes possession of Cassander s territories at his death in 285 BCE - Lysimachus falls in battle to Seleucus I Nicator in 281 BCE giving him the major portion of Asia Antiochus II long war until end of some years Ptolemy II Wife: Laodice divorced in order to marry Bernice Wife: Bernice - daughter of Ptolemy II equitable arrangement - murdered along with son and her attendants those bringing her in Wife: Laodice - remarried when Ptolemy II died in 246 BCE - mother of Selecus II; poisons husband Antiochus II; killed by Ptolemy III Seleucus II - one from sprout of her (Bernice s) roots (same father) will come and prevail Ptolemy III fulfilled by Bernice s brother Ptolemy III plundering King of the North s empire, including Babylonia and taking gods and gold and silver captive to Egypt - Seleucus II strikes back but meets with defeat and retreats back to his own soil Seleucus III - brief three year reign is ended by assassination (succeeded by his brother Antiochus III) Antiochus III - Antiochus III floods over and passes through winning back seaports Ptolemy IV - Ptolemy IV becomes embittered and goes forth and has a large crowd of 68,000 given into his hand and tens of thousands fall in death to him - King of North, Antiochus III returns with a crowd larger than the first Ptolemy V - Ptolemy V finds many who will stand up against the king of the south including revolutionary sons of robbers, both Egyptian and Judean alike - Ptolemy V finds no power to keep standing against the one coming against him - Antiochus III stands in the land of Decoration by marching against Jerusalem and Jerusalem passes from southern domination to northern in 198 BCE - equitable terms are found in the political marriage of Cleopatra I to Ptolemy V - Antiochus III bows to Rome s dictates and returns lands as his daughter s dowry - Antiochus scheme fails as his daughter does not continue to be his for Cleopatra I chooses to side with her new husband instead of her father - Antiochus III turns back to the coastlands of Greece and Asia Minor only to meet a great defeat at Thermopylae by a Roman commander - he is made to stumble and fall in death while robbing a temple at Elymais causing his reproach to be turned back upon him Seleucus IV murdered by his own treasurer (succeeded by his brother Antiochus IV) Ptolemy VI Antiochus IV - Desecrates temple at Jerusalem in 167 BCE; leads to Maccabean revolt - temple is rededicated 3 years later; festival of dedication (Hanukah) instituted - Maccabean/Syrian friction continues until Roman intervention - Pompey takes Jerusalem in 63 BCE; Rome appoints Herod as King of Judea in 39 BCE

2 Daniel Book Chapter 14: Two Kings Change Identities Summary of Daniel 11:20-26 Antiochus IV - Antiochus IV invades Egypt and crowns himself its king Ptolemy VI - Ptolemy VI seeks help from Rome; Roman Ambassador Laenas humiliates Antiochus (who returns home) ROME - Rome continues dictating to Syria which becomes a Roman province in 64 BCE Octavian - Octavian defeats Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII at Actium in 31 BCE Cleopatra VII (Augustus) ending Ptolemaic dynasty; thus Egypt also becomes a Roman province - Octavian assumes title of Caesar Augustus and causes and exactor (census) to pass through the splendid kingdom including Judea in 2 BCE - Augustus dies in 14 CE not in anger or in warfare but in illness Tiberius - Augustus hated stepson Tiberius, the one who was despised takes hold of the kingdom by means of smoothness (Tiberius played politics with the senate for nearly a month after Augustus death before he would assume the title of emperor) - Tiberius breaks [the arms of the flood] of costly invasions by adopting a defensive foreign policy: he strengthens Roman borders rather than extending them - the Leader of the Covenant is likewise broken during Tiberius reign (33 CE); Jesus is executed on false charges of treason and due to laws of injured majesty (which Tiberius had broadened to include virtually any insult to Caesar) - Tiberius becomes mighty by means of a little nation, namely the Praetorian Guard; the Guard (10,000 strong) was the only army allowed within the walls of Rome and served as the Emperor s personal bodyguard and also his terrorists within Rome Roman Emperors: - Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian all filled the role of the King of the North during their reigns Aurelian Emperor Romulus Augustulus Queen Zenobia - Queen Zenobia of Palmyra leads her army into Egypt in 269 CE under the pretext of securing it for Rome; she further aims to make Palmyra the dominant city of the East and wishes to rule Rome s eastern provinces - Alarmed by Zenobia s ambition Aurelian arouses his power and his heart against the king of the south and captures both Palmyra and Zenobia (who is paraded as a prize feature during Aurelian s victory procession) - Aurelian himself, however, will not stand because they will scheme out against him schemes and the very ones eating his delicacies will bring his breakdown ; Aurelian is betrayed by his secretary and murdered by his deceived officers - And as for his military force, it will be flooded away, and certainly many will fall down slain ; the Roman armies gradually flood away until they are they are completely overrun by Germanic barbarians; in 476 CE the last Roman Emperor (Romulus Augustulus) is deposed by Germanic leader Odoacer; - Rome has fallen

3 Daniel Book Chapter 14b: Two Kings Change Identities Dark Ages to Modern Age Summary ROMAN EGYPT - Roman Emperor Constantine adopts apostate Christianity as the state religion and presides over council of Nicaea in 325 CE (contributing to modern Trinity Doctrine) - Constantine moves capital from Rome to Byzantium (Constantinople) in Turkey - Roman Empire is split between Eastern and Western Empires following the death of Emperor Theodosius in 395 CE (Eastern capital in Constantinople; Western capital in Rome) - Egypt (King of the South) is included in the Eastern Empire - Leo I becomes Catholic pope in 440 CE; he asserts considerable papal authority and is credited with saving Rome from barbarian invasion - Rome (Western Empire) falls to Germanic barbarian tribes in 476 CE HOLY ROMAN - Alexandria falls to Saracens in 642 CE and Egypt becomes an Arab province - Pope Leo III crowns Frankish King Charlemagne as Emperor of the new Holy Roman Empire in 800 CE (this empire was referred to by Hitler as the First Reich) - Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 962 CE; Otto I moves the capital from Rome to Germany; the Austrian house of Hapsburg retains the title of Emperor for five centuries - Turkish forces take Constantinople in 1453 ending the Eastern Roman Empire; they continue their expansion and take Egypt as a province in British Empire is established in 1773 as Britain is recognized as undisputed ruler of the seven seas; three years later (1776) the American colonies declare their independence from Britain - Napoleon conquers Egypt in 1798; Britain forms an alliance with Ottoman Empire BRITISH to remove French rule from Egypt; British influence in Egypt increases - Napoleon I delivers a deathblow to the Holy Roman Empire by refusing to recognize its existence; unable to defend his crown the last Emperor (Francis II) resigns from Roman Imperial status in the Holy Roman Empire (which lasted 1006 years) comes to an end GERMANIC - Wilhelm I is named Kaiser (from Caesar ) of Germany in 1871; the Germanic Empire is born (this empire was referred to by Hitler as the Second Reich) - Egypt becomes a British dependency in 1882 as Britain expands control of (newly-constructed) Suez Canal region - Germany closes the 19 th century with an aggressive foreign policy of expansion - Britain closes the 19 th century at her zenith: ruling over one-quarter of the world

4 Daniel Book Chapter 15: The Rival Kings Enter the 20 th Century Summary of Daniel 11:27-31 Germanic Empire - and as regards these two kings, their heart will be inclined to doing what is bad and at one table a lie is what they will keep speaking - The Permanent Court of Arbitration is set up in The Hague, Netherlands in 1907; both Germany and Britain join the court, giving the appearance that both sides favor peace, yet simultaneously prepare for war - and the king of the north will go back to his land with a great amount of goods - Germany s pursuing an aggressive foreign policy and leading the Triple Alliance (between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) greatly enriches itself British Empire - his heart will be set against the holy covenant and he will act effectively and go back to his land - Germany ignores the declaration that the appointed times of the nations will end in 1914 and that God s Kingdom is established in that year with Christ as King and instead pursues its own schemes for world domination - at the appointed time he will go back and he will come against the south - following the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany initiates a series of chain-reactions that culminates in World War I - but it will not prove to be at the last the same as the first - in previous conflicts (especially when the North was represented by Rome) the King of the North had consistently been victorious; not so this time - there will certainly come against him the ships of Kittim, and he will have to become dejected - ships of Kittim is also translated as ships of the western coastlands referring to the British navy lying off the western coast of Europe which was augmented by the American Navy and Armed Forces in 1916 when America declared war on Germany Anglo- American World Power Hitler s Third Reich - and they will certainly go back and hurl denunciations against the holy covenant and act effectively and will give considerations to those leaving the covenant - Germany is defeated and inflicted with heavy punitive fines for its role in WWI; steeped in economic and political turmoil Germany elects Adolph Hitler president in 1934 who quickly makes himself a dictator for life - his Nazi regime refers to itself as the Third Reich (the first being the Holy Roman Empire and the second being the Germanic Empire) - he attacks the holy covenant of Jehovah s people by viciously persecuting them; conversely he enters concordats with Christendom (those leaving the covenant ) - there will be arms that stand up, proceeding from him, and he will profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and remove the constant feature - Hitler s arms or military forces launch a Blitzkrieg invasion against Poland in 1939 triggering World War II - Hitler profaned the earthly courtyard of Jehovah s temple by relentlessly persecuting the anointed remnant and their companions so severely that the constant feature (the public sacrifice of praise to Jehovah s name) was removed in lands under his control Communist Bloc - Germany surrenders in May 1945 to Allied forces ending its tenure as King of the North; Germany is divided into West and East (under Communist control) - And they will certainly put in place the disgusting thing that is causing desolation the disgusting counterfeit of the only real hope for peace (God s kingdom) is put in place by the establishment of the United Nations in October 1945 by both kings (Britain, America and Russia and China)

5 Daniel Book Chapter 16: The Contending Kings Near Their End Summary of Daniel 11:32-45 Communist Bloc Anglo-American - And those who are acting wickedly against the covenant, he will lead into World Power apostasy by means of smooth words - the Soviet Government makes an effort to enlist the material and moral support of the leaders of the Churches of Christendom (the ones acting wickedly against the covenant ) who comply despite the atheistic policy of the King of the North - as regards the people who are knowing their God they will prevail and stumble - true Christians are made to stumble in that they suffered intense persecution in the lands ruled by the King of the North; but the vast majority prevail by remaining faithful and keeping their integrity (and their overall numbers increased in these lands despite persecution) - many will join themselves to them by means of smoothness - considerable numbers of avowed Communist spies crept into the congregations of Jehovah s people by making great pretenses and displays of zeal - those having insight will be made to stumble, in order to do a refining work because of them and to do a cleansing and to do a whitening - infiltrators cause some faithful ones to fall ( stumble ) into the hands of authorities; Jehovah permits these events for a refining and cleansing and whitening of his people - and the king will actually do according to his own will and he will exalt and magnify himself above every other god; and against the God of gods he will speak marvelous things to the God of his fathers he will give no consideration; but over everyone he will magnify himself - the King of the North refuses to acknowledge Jehovah s sovereignty ( speaking marvelous things against God of gods ); furthermore, he rejects the gods of his forefathers, such as the Trinitarian divinity of Christendom, and he proceeds according to his will alone - But to the god of fortresses, in his position he will give glory by means of gold and silver and by means of precious stones and by means of desirable things. - the King of the North places his trust solely in modern scientific militarism, seeking salvation through this god by sacrificing enormous wealth on its altar - And in the time of the end the king of the south will engage him in a pushing, and against him the king of the north will storm and he will certainly enter many lands and flood over and pass through - the punitive treaty imposed on Germany following the first world war by the king of the south was a pushing or incitement to retaliation - following the second world war the King of the South pushes again by setting up NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to contain the USSR - pushing continued by means of diplomatic and military offenses and by espionage - the King of the North reacts by building a powerful empire and by fighting the King of the South by proxy in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Vietnam - and he will actually rule over the hidden treasures of the gold and the silver and over all the desirable things of Egypt - the King of the North exerts a powerful influence on how the King of the South allocates his financial resources, causing him to devote huge sums to maintain his army, navy and air force (in this sense the King of the North ruled over or controlled the disposition of wealth by the King of the South) - the Soviet Union disbands in December 1991 ending its tenure as the King of the North Yet to Rise - But there will be reports that will disturb him, out of the sunrising and out of the north, and he will go forth in a great rage in order to annihilate and devote many to destruction. And he will plant his palatial tents between the grand sea and the holy mountain of Decoration; and he will have to come all the way to his end, and there will be no helper for him.