DANIEL 11:42,43 IN "THE TIME OF THE END"
Daniel 11:42,43: He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Although Ptolemy's Egypt was the literal King of the South in early Daniel 11 (verses 8 & 9), here in verses 42 & 43 it is representative of Atheism, the spiritual King of the South in the "time of the end", i.e. after 1798.
Recall that the literal King of the North was conquered by Pagan Rome in Daniel 11:16
Recall also that the literal King of the South was conquered by Pagan Rome in Daniel 11:25
With the defeat of the Kings of the North and South, Alexander the Great's Grecia passed into prophetic history. The BRASS of the Daniel 2 image had given way to the legs of IRON
Hence the mention of the Kings of the North and South in Daniel 11:40 cannot be taken literally and must have a spiritual application at this time in the prophecy in "the time of the end". The Daniel 2 image has no BRASS in the feet of Iron & Clay!
EGYPT, THE KING OF THE SOUTH IS REPRESENTATIVE OF ATHEISM IN THE "TIME OF THE END".
"And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go." Exodus 5:2
Atheism is embedded in the Communism of the major end-time communist players of the Soviet Union, China and North Korea.
Atheism has collapsed in the Soviet Union
The Chinese & North Korean atheistic communist systems will also capitulate.
Atheism world-wide will collapse.
All the world will wonder (marvel) after the beast. See Rev 13:3.
The cover of Time magazine, June 19, 1989, said, “Revolt against Communism - China, Poland, USSR.” The article caption said:
“Defiance rocks the Communist world. China resists while Moscow and Warsaw struggle to reform.” The article itself said, “It has been a given among experts for some time that part of the challenge to the U.S. and its allies is to bring GLOBAL COMMUNISM in its decline to a soft landing rather than let it crash and burn....Ronald Reagan spoke of Marxism as 'inherently unstable' and doomed. But in the policies that went with this confident rhetoric, he, like his predecessors, concentrated on the task of matching Communism's strength and deterring its expansion, not on the more subtle and relevant dilemma of coping with the consequences of its weakness, decay and retrenchment. George Bush seems to see the problem clearly. He has said that the industrialized democracies, led by the U.S., should move ‘beyond containment’ and ‘integrate the Soviet Union into the world order.’”
Time magazine described this atheistic enemy and threat to Catholicism in the following words:
“Forms of anti-Catholicism undoubtedly persist. The deeper conflict, however, is not between the Catholics Church and other religions, or between Catholics and people of other faiths. It is between Catholics and HUMANISM, between the idea of a natural moral law and moral relativism. ‘All of Western civilization was based on the postulate of a natural moral law.’ which assumes that man is a creature of God, argues Edward Hanify, a Catholic and Boston lawyer. ‘The currently ascendant philosophy of humanism has an entirely different view of man: he is an autonomous being, with no external controls. Because Catholics happen to be a conspicuous exponents of natural moral law, humanists see the church as their barrier, and they are bitter against it.’ The threat to Catholicism is not the snide and supercilious contempt of a casual bigot, but the idea. immensely powerful in the 20th century, that all religion is meaningless.” Time magazine, Oct. 15, 1979, p36].
In the New York Post, Jackson Martindell, the president of the American Institute of Management, was quoted as saying:
“Either Communism will rule the world or the Catholics will prevent it.”New York Post, Aug. 22, 1962.
The Catholics, allied with the apostate Protestant USA, are preventing it!
ECONOMIC POWER - verse 43
The king of the north will soon have such economic “power over the treasures of gold and of silver” that none but those who receive the mark of the beast will be able to buy or sell (Rev 13:17)
ECONOMIC BOYCOTT - CONTROLING BUYING & SELLING
Here is prophesied that the King of the North will gain ECONOMIC CONTROL.
Soon no one will be able to buy and sell without the mark of the beast. See Rev 13:16-17.
World financial control will be in the hands of the Papal headed one world government.
Who will give the Papacy financial power over the nations?
“And he had POWER to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might BUY SELL, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:15-17.
The Apostate Protestant United States will have the power to enforce the Papal laws. The Papal power united to the 'Protestant' U.S. will control the people's right to buy and sell.
The 3rd angel's message shows that the two major powers in the last moments of earth's history will be the image of the beast and the beast existing together. (Rev 14:9-11)
“Those who are loyal to God will see every earthly support cut off.” Desire of Ages, p121
Ques. Could the treasures of gold & silver represent God’s people?
Ans. At times gold & silver treasures represent the people of God but this is not the case here because:
(a) In the latter part of Daniel 11 kingdoms & places represent peoples. Inanimate objects possessed by the peoples do not.
(b) In Daniel 11:42, peoples who escape the clutches of the king of the north represent God’s people who come out of their erroneous belief systems. It is unlikely that the next verse (Daniel 11:43) would repreent the people of God under the symbol of inanimate objects.
“Those who are loyal to God will see every earthly support cut off.” E.G. White, Desire of Ages, p121.
Literal Egypt was spoiled by the literal King of the North in the past as seen in Ezekiel 29-30...
"Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of EGYPT unto Nebuchadrezzar king of BABYLON; and he shall take her multitude, and TAKE HER SPOIL, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army." Ezekiel 29:19.
Notice how Scripture describes Egypt’s fall:
“And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with THE GROANINGS OF A DEADLY WOUNDED MAN.” Ezekiel 30:24
Atheism in the form of France inflicted on Papal Rome a deadly wound in 1798. Atheism will, however, be defeated and receive a DEADLY WOUND itself from the hands of Papal Rome.
THE LIBYANS AND ETHIOPIANS SHALL BE AT HIS STEPS
To be at someoneʼs steps is to be a follower of theirs (Ps 37:23; Job 23:11; Exo 11:8 margin; 1Kings 20:10 margin; 1Pet 2:21-22).
Psalm 37:23"The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way." The good man is a follower of the Lord
Job 23:11 "My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined."
Job says my foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept. He is a follower of God.
Exodus 11:8 “Get thee out and all the people that follow thee (margin that is at thy feet).”
1Kings 20:10 “all the people that follow me. (margin are at my feet)”
IPeter 2:21-23 "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: We are to follow in Christ's steps and therefore, are followers of Christ.
Hence, the Libyans and Ethiopians being at the steps of the King of the North represent those who follow and support Papal Rome, the King of the North.
May God bless you and give you the Spirit of Wisdom as you study into these things.
Elias
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