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THE KING OF THE NORTH AT JERUSALEM
deliverance of the people of God” in connection with the Satanic forces of spiritual Babylon (Revelation 13
to 19). Daniel described the same things in connection with the “king of the north.”
Our attention should be arrested by the fact that in the scores of places where the Lord’s servant
refers to Daniel’s prophecy of the deliverance of God’s people, greatly enlarging upon the theme in her
graphic descriptions of that great event, she does not make the slightest reference to the ending of Turkey!
For instance, read chapters 40 and 41 of “Great Controversy” concerning “God’s People Delivered,” and
observe at this deliverance of the people of God is described in connection with the judgments which fall
upon Babylon. In “Early Writings,” pp. 282-285, in the chapter, “The Time of Trouble,” God’s servant
invariably speaks of the deliverance of God’s people in connection with the enforcement of Babylon’s false
Sabbath and the attempt to slay the Lord’s people for their loyalty to the Law of God. Not the slightest
reference is made to Turkey’s doom! Yet in Daniel 11:45; 12:1 the ending of the king of the north is
mentioned in connection with the deliverance of God’s people! The obvious conclusion derived from this
association is that the king of the north is responsible for the “dangers” and “conflicts” of the church, and
that it is his evil work against the church which necessitates the Lord’s intervention to bring “deliverance”
to His people.
As the king of the north does the same work as the Papacy there can be but one conclusion,
namely, that the king of the north refers to the Papacy. Thus we see why John the Revelator and the servant
of the Lord describe “the final, deliverance of the people of God” while describing God’s judgments upon
spiritual Babylon. Daniel, John, and the Spirit of Prophecy are in perfect agreement!
When this truth is seen by God’s people “there will be seen among us a great revival,” for it
requires “a better knowledge of the books of Daniel and Revelation” to understand thoroughly why the king
of the north is the Papacy and to know how he comes to his end at Jerusalem. To understand the prophecies
given to him, Daniel fasted and prayed for three weeks (Daniel 10:2, 3). John “wept much” (Revelation
5:4) because of his intense longing for a true understanding of the revelations given him. When God’s
people engage in fasting and praying and weeping, with intense longing to have “a better knowledge of the
books of Daniel and the Revelation,” they will see that the king of the north could not possibly be Turkey
but that, undoubtedly, it is the Papacy that comes to “his end” became of its persecution of the people of
God.
3. THE PIONEERS OF THE ADVENT MOVEMENT
The godly pioneers of the Advent Movement, from their consecrated study of the Word of God,
came to the conclusion that the power referred to in the closing verses of Daniel 11 was the Papacy. Their
belief they expressed in “A Word to the Little Flock,” p. 9. After quoting Daniel 12: 1, we read: “This last
power that treads the saints is brought to view in Revelation 11-18. His number is 666.”
In the “Signs of the Times” (edited by James White) of July 22, 1880, Elder James White wrote:
“The field of Daniel’s prophecy embraces five universal kingdoms. These are Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece and Rome, and the eternal kingdom of God. The ground of these perishable kingdoms, reaching to,
and introducing the immortal kingdom, is covered by four distinct lines of prophecy. These are given in
chapters two, seven, eight, and eleven. The eleventh chapter of Daniel closes with the close of the fourth
monarchy with these words: [Daniel 11:45 and 12:1-3 are then quoted].
“The student of prophecy is thus borne down the stream of time from Babylon in the height of the
glory of that kingdom, past Media and Persia, the kingdom of Greece, and the Roman Empire which comes
to its end, at the second coming of Christ.”
Condemning the view that Turkey was the power referred to in Daniel 11:40-45, James White
wrote an editorial in the “Review and Herald,” November 29, 1877. He said: “Let us take a brief view of
the line of prophecy four times spanned in the book of Daniel. It will be admitted that the same ground is
passed over in chapters two, seven, eight, and eleven, with this exception, that Babylon is left out of
chapters eight and eleven. We first pass down the great image of chapter 2, where Babylon, Persia, Greece,
and Rome are represented by the gold, the silver, the brass, and the iron. All agree that these feet are not
Turkish but Roman. And as, we pass down to the lion, the bear, the leopard, and the beast with ten horns,
representing the same as the great image, again all will agree that it is not Turkey that is cast into the
burning flame, but the Roman beast. So of chapter 8, all agree that the little horn that stood up against the
Prince of princes is not Turkey but Rome. In all these lines thus far Rome is the last form of government