As it is our duty to sanctify the Lord God in our hearts, and to be ready to give the right answer at the right time to every man that asks for a reason of the hope that is in us, let us read —
Dan. 11:40–43 — “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 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 stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.”
The dispute brought to view in this verse, occurring between the kings, is not before the time of end, or in the time of the end, but “at the time of the end.”
The king of the south you note, is the one to push at the king of the north, and the king of the north is the one to win the war, and to take from the king of the south the glorious land (Palestine) and Egypt besides the countries that are not mentioned by name.
These points as we shall now see are sufficient to perfectly identify both kings, the war, and the time it is fought. As the war is to begin at the time of the end, and as the king of the south is the loser of the war, the countries that are conquered must therefore be ruled by the king of the north during the time of the end.
For a detailed study of The King of the North and the South, see this article: Endgame: The King of the North, and the King of the South
Since, as Adventists, we all agree that we are now living in the “time of the end,” we need not say more concerning that phase of the subject, but we do need to acknowledge which power at this particular time, in the time of the end, added “the glorious land” (Palestine), Egypt, and other countries to its empire.
The answer that anyone can give is that Great Britain took these from Turkey (the Ottoman Empire), and virtually ruled them ever since.
Great Britain occupied Egypt in 1882, which was still nominally a province of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). The British intervention was to secure financial interests and the Suez Canal, leading to a de facto protectorate. Egypt was formally declared a British protectorate in 1914 after the Ottoman Empire joined World War I against Britain.
Great Britain also took control of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire by the end of 1917, with the Balfour Declaration supporting a Jewish national home and culminating in a British Mandate for Palestine awarded by the League of Nations in 1920. British troops captured Jerusalem in December 1917 and had secured all of Palestine by the following year. Britain ruled over Palestine from 1917 until 1948, a period marked by significant Jewish migration and growing conflict with the Arab population.
Plainly then, during the time of the end, Great Britain is the king of the north and Turkey is the king of the south.
Rightfully so, too, for Mohammedanism originally arose from the south of the Promised Land and the Mediterranean, inundated the lands of the north, and ruled them to the time of the end. Then the tables turned and the Turkish empire began to shrink while the British began to expand.
Since there is no way of any one dodging the truth of the subject, there is no need of further discussion of it.
“Is World War II In Daniel’s Prophecy?”
Dan. 11:44, 45 — “But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
In this particular war the king of the north goes to destroy many because unpleasant news from out of the east and from out of the north, reach his ears. The king of the south is therefore not involved in it.
Since Hitler and Russia (the powers of the north) started War No. II in Poland, then Japan (the power of the east) joined it, and since Turkey, the king of the south kept out of it, it is very obvious that the war of Dan. 11:44 is World War II into which the tidings here mentioned dragged England (the king of the north).
World War II therefore is positively the war predicted in Dan. 11:44, 45, the last war of Daniel eleven.
Beyond the Headlines: Decoding the Global Theatre of War - War News Forecast Introduction: The Echoes of Conflict In a world perpetually reverberating with the sounds of conflict, it is easy to become numb to the headlines. Yet, for those who “follow the Lamb withersoever He goeth,” these echoes are not mere background noise — they are prophetic signposts. The Saviour Himself predicted with… Moreover, the fact that only verse 44 so far has been fulfilled, that the king is yet to come to his end, is proof positive that World War II is yet to be finished, that there is to be no peace now, and no mutual agreement between the nations although the war was supposed to have ceased since Hitler’s disappearance.
The statement, “He [king of the north] shall come to his end and none shall help him,” implies that someone has been helping him, and the world knows that it has been the United States of America. We therefore, find ourselves living in between verses 44, and 45 of Daniel eleven.
