Kings Of The North - Amazing Discoveries

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THE KING OF THE NORTH AT JERUSALEM
God’s people “utterly.” This, of course, is precisely what is mentioned in Daniel’s last prophecy regarding
the king of the north: “he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many” (Daniel
11: 44).
“In the latter years” (Ezekiel 38: 8), Gog and his armies come “from the north parts” (Ezekiel
39:2) to destroy the people of God. In the last days, the king of the north comes to destroy the people of
God. That Gog and his armies refer to the same as the armies of the king of the north is obvious from the
fact that both come from the north; both come in the last days; both come to destroy the people of God.
Both are destroyed by the God of Israel. Now the Lord has definitely told us that Gog’s armies are the
wicked who are led by Satan to war against “the holy city” and the people of God (Revelation 11:2; 14:20;
20: 8, 9; etc.), so the same power who is referred to in Daniel 11 as the king of the north and who comes to
attack the people and city of God, must also be the wicked who are led by Satan. In “The Certainty of the
Third Angel’s Message,” the writer has demonstrated fully the Bible principle of interpretation: before the
millennium, the gathering of the forces of evil against “the ‘holy city” is a spiritual representation (as if the
church, being “the Israel of God,” were in “the land of Israel”) ; after the millennium, the gathering of the
forces of evil against “the holy city” refers to a literal gathering against the literal “Holy city.”
The king of the north is antichrist, “that man of sin, the son of perdition; who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God
showing himself that he is God.” He makes a profession of representing Christ, but actually is against Him.
He works “with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
them that perish” (2 Thessalonians 2: 3-10).
In this power are worked out the principles of the proud Lucifer who, while professing to be
prompted by noble motives, sought to exalt himself to the place of Deity: “in the sides of the north” (Isaiah
14: 12-14, compare with Psalm 48: 1, 2). Gog and his armies come “from the north parts,” from “the sides
of the north.” (Ezekiel 39: 2, margin). Gog assumes to be in the place of the Deity. Daniel declares that the
king of the north “shall do according to his will; and shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every
god.” This is the verse Paul quotes in 2 Thessalonians 2: 3-7 when describing the Papal apostasy. In
Daniel’s last prophecy three powers are said to “do according to his will.” The first (Daniel 11:3) was
Alexander the Great who, after he had conquered Asia, encouraged the worship of himself as a god. The
second (Daniel 11:16) refers to Rome under the Caesars who enforced Emperor worship. The third (Daniel
11: 36) refers to the Papacy which exalts the Pope as a god and inculcates reverence for Mary. In this
connection, observe carefully the following extract from the pen of God’s servant commenting on “ . . . the
‘man of sin’ foretold in prophecy as opposing and exalting himself above God. That gigantic system of
false religion is a masterpiece of Satan’s power-a monument of his efforts to seat himself upon the throne to
rule the earth according to his will ... Satan worked according to his will” (Great Controversy, Page 50, 51).
The name “Gog” means “covered,” alluding to the deceitful character of him who bears this name.
“Gog” is a fitting name for that false system of worship, which, under the guise of Christian nomenclature,
continues, in the professedly Christian church, the old Babylonian mysteries associated with sun worship. It
is a deceitful form of worship, for it counterfeits the true: it “covers” “the truth in unrighteousness,” and
“Changes the truth of God into a lie” (Romans 1: 18, 25). Spiritual Babylon of the Revelation is the rival of
Jerusalem, the spiritual home of God’s people. The Lord calls His people to come out of Babylon to
Jerusalem, the city of truth and peace (Revelation 18:4; Zechariah 8:3). Though the head of that false
system professes to be “the vicar of the Son of God,” the Scriptures define him as “that man of sin ... so that
he as God sits in the temple of God [the professing Christian church], showing himself that he is God.”
Verses 6 and 8 of 2 Thessalonians 2 show that “Gog,” the “covered” one, would be “revealed”; “then shall
that wicked one be revealed.”
How true are the footnotes in Brown’s Bible concerning the prophecy of Ezekiel 38; 39: ‘Gog and
Magog,’ both signifying ‘covered, concealed,’ which, read in the light of 2 Thessalonians 2: 3, 6, 8, where
‘that man of sin,’ ‘that wicked,’ is yet to be revealed -to be uncovered, as it were-and deprived forever of
the mask of hypocrisy, that assumption of Christianity behind which is concealed his idolatry-his
paganism.”
“Magog” meaning “expansion, increase of family,” refers to the world-wide extension of Satan’s
false system of worship, which has “cast down the truth to the ground; and it [has] practiced and prospered”
(Daniel 8: 12, 24, 25). Error will so prosper that “all that dwell upon the earth [except the remnant church,
Revelation 12: 17, etc. “shall worship the beast” (Revelation 13: 8). In the prophecy of Ezekiel 38; 39,
Gog’s great army coming “from the north parts” represents the vast numbers of the unsaved. See Ezekiel
39: 12-16 and compare with Revelation 20: 8, 9. In Daniel’s last prophecy, referring again to the forces of