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THE KING OF THE NORTH AT JERUSALEM
7. THE PRINCIPLE OF PARALLEL PASSAGES
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A COMPARISON OF THE ENDINGS OF DANIEL’S PROPHECIES SHOWING
THAT THEY ALL END WITH THE DOOM OF BABYLON.
Daniel 2: 33, 34, 43-45. The stone (“cut out of the mountains without hands”), representing the
second coming of Christ, falls upon the ten toes of the Babylonian image. Those ten toes represent the
nations of Europe under the leadership of the Papacy. See Daniel 7:7, 8, 20, 24; Revelation 17:12-14.
Daniel 7:11, 26. The Roman beast is destroyed at the second advent. “The beast was slain.” “To consume
and to destroy it unto the end.” Daniel 8: 25. The Roman desolator “shall be broken without hand”-that is,
without any human help-none shall help him. Daniel 9: 27, margin. “That determined shall be poured upon
the desolator.” Daniel 11: 45. “Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
How utterly incongruous it would be for Daniel to give a series of prophecies ending in the
destruction of the forces of Babylon that have opposed the work and people of God, to end up his last, the
climax of them all, describing the end of a comparatively small nation having no direct relationship with
the great conflict which he has portrayed in progress down through the centuries until the second advent!
But how fitting for him to climax all that he has written by giving a vivid presentation of the final phases of
the spiritual conflict, which ends in the utter destruction of the enemies of God and of His people. Such a
presentation harmonizes with what other Bible writers have written-see 2 Thessalonians 2: 3, 8; Revelation
16: 12-16; 17: 14; chap. 18; 19: 11-21.
A, COMPARISON OF DANIEL’S LAST TWO PROPHECIES SHOWING THAT HIS LAST
PROPHECY IS AN EXPLANATION OF THE FORMER.
The following parallels will show at a glance that Daniel’s last prophecy (10 to 12) was given as
an enlargement and explanation of his previous prophecy (8 and 9). In both these prophecies the same
historical features are considered: MedoPersia; Greece and its break up; Rome’s invasion of “the pleasant,”
or “glorious land”; Papal Rome’s war against the Lord’s sanctuary and His people, and both end with the
doom of the Papacy. Daniel 9: 1 and Daniel 11: 1 both refer to “the first year of Darius,” in 538 BC Darius,
however, was dead when Daniel had this dream; Cyrus then being the sole monarch of the kingdom (Daniel
10: 1).
THE VISION OF DANIEL 8. THE VISION OF DANIEL 10-12
v. 3, 20 – “KINGS OF MEDIA AND PERSIA” v. 2 – “KINGS IN PERSIA”
v. 5, 21 – “GRECIA” V. 2, 3 – “GREECE”
v. 8 - “Strong” v. 3 – “A mighty king”
v. 8 - “waxed very great- v. 3 – “rule with great dominion”
v. 8 - “great horn was broken” v. 4 - “the kingdom shall he broken”
v. 8 - “toward the four winds of heaven” v. 4 – “Toward the four winds of heaven”
v. 5-13-Additional features given concerning the
break up of Greece: conflicts of the kings of north
and south.
v. 9-ROME: v. 16-ROME
A little horn arises “out of v. 15 - came against “the king of the
one of them”-the territory north.” Syria conquered and
of the king of the north added to the Roman Empire, BC 65.
v. 9 – “waxed exceeding great” v. 16 – “None shall stand before him”
v. 9 – “toward the pleasant or glorious land” v. 16 – “shall stand in the glorious land”
V. 10 – “Stamped upon” the Jews v. 14-”The robbers or breakers of thy people” (see
also Daniel 12: 7, R.V.).
v. 11 – “against the Prince of the host” (margin) v. 22-”The Prince of the Covenant” to be “broken”
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