Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

to try them, and to purge, and to make them white,
even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a
time appointed. And the king shall do according to
his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify
himself above every god, and shall speak
marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall
prosper till the indignation be accomplished.”
(Daniel 11:35, 36)
Here a persecution against the saints is foretold
which would last until “the time of the end.” It has
previously been shown that “the time of the end”
would begin when the 1260-year period ended, or
in 1798. In the above verses is predicted the
appearance upon the scene of world action of a
willful king who would wreak God’s indignation
upon the persecutor of His people. Since the
persecutor was the papacy, one must look
elsewhere than the medieval hierarchy to locate the
willful king destined to put an end to the 1260-year
period and to inflict a deadly wound upon the
destroyer. What power was swinging into strength,
seized with a religious antagonism to the papacy,
about 1798? What other nation could fulfill these
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