Daniel Chapter 11 Vs. 41

 The King of the North

Daniel 11:41 "He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, [even] Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon."




He shall enter... After Antichrist from Syria has conquered Greece, Turkey, and Egypt and the countries making up these last-day divisions of the Grecian Empire, he then breaks his covenant with the Jews (Dan. 9:27), entering into Palestine as well as taking over the many countries of the other six kingdoms of Revised Rome.

but these shall... The Antichrist’s kingdom will be limited. Here, three countries escape out of his hand even though they border on his empire.

Notice these centers in the holy land {Israel}.




Simultaneous with the invasion of Israel by the king of the South (Egypt) will be an invasion by the king of the North. Some Bible scholars equate this invasion with the one by Gog and Magog, for Gog will “come from… the far north” (Eze. 38:15). Others say the battle of Gog and Magog will occur in the first half of the 70th “seven” and thus before this two-pronged invasion in Dan. 11:40. They suggest that the battle of Gog and Magog will occur when Israel is at peace (Eze. 38:11, 38:14). According to that view, a difference is made between Gog who will come from “the far north” (Eze. 38:15) and a later invasion which will be headed by “the king of the North” (Dan. 11:40). Either way the king of the North in Dan. 11:40 is certainly not one of the Seleucid kings of the North in Dan. 11:5-35. This invasion has no correspondence to historical facts; it is yet future.