*Habakkuk 2:2-3, "And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."

Seventy weeks were determined on the nation of Israel, Daniel's people. The thing was true and the time appointed was long. Daniel was told by Gabriel that the purpose for these seventy weeks was to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins,  to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. To Daniel this meant that the "time appointed" was the time that  Messiah would come and all things would be restored as they were in the beginning when God created heaven and earth. God would once again live and reign on the earth. The "kingdom of heaven" would be reestablished.

*Ezra 6:14-16, "And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.  And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy."

In 396 B.C. Jerusalem was completed and the last prophet spoke. Then a mighty king, Alexander the Great, conquered and ruled in the land in 334 B.C. "And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those," (11:3-4). After his death in 323 B.C., his kingdom was divided between his more important followers known as the 'Diadochi.'

11:5 Then the king of the South will grow strong, along with one of his princes who will gain ascendancy over him and obtain dominion; his domain will be a great dominion indeed.

Ptolemy I (323-285 B.C.), called Soter or Savior,  was one of Alexander's favorite generals. After Alexander's death, he seized Egypt as his share of the divided empire. He assumed the title of King of Egypt. He made Alexandria his capital and encouraged Greek and other foreign soldiers to settle in Egypt. They helped him to extend his rule to Cyrene, Crete, and Cyprus. He was considered the greatest king of the Macedonian line. The Ptolemies are the kings of the South.

Seleucus I Nicator (312-281 B.C.), a general under Alexander the Great, started the Seleucid Dynasty which was centered in Syria and Mesopotamia. In the new partitioning of the empire in 312 B.C. he received Babylonia. Conquest of Susiana and Media enlarged his holdings. Seleucus gained a large part of Asia Minor and all of Syria. Of all the Macedonian generals he was the one who tried hardest to set up a kingdom following Alexander's ideas. He was murdered before he could achieve his ambition of seizing the vacant throne of Macedonia. He was succeeded by Antiochus I. The Seleucids are the kings of the North.

11:6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.

Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 B.C.) was the son of Ptolemy I and Berenice. He warred against Syria until he married his daughter Berenice to the Syrian Antiochus II. He repudiated his wife Arsinoe to marry his sister, also named Arsinoe.

Antiochus II Theos (262-247 B.C.) was the son and successor of Antiochus I.  In warfare with Ptolemy II he had sporadic successes, but his marriage to Ptolemy's daughter Berenice sealed the peace, and most of the Syrian possessions his father had lost were restored to Antiochus.  On the death of Antiochus, his son by an earlier marriage, Seleucus II and Berenice on behalf of her infant son struggled for the throne.  A long war with Ptolemy III ensued.

11:7-10 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-221 B.C.), son of Ptolemy II and the first Arsinoe, plunged immediately into a war with Syria, where his sister, Berenice, was trying to secure the throne for her son. Berenice and her son were murdered before Ptolemy could arrive, and Seleucus II held the throne. The Egyptian king won a brilliant victory procuring many of the Egyptian gods that were carried into Persia. Egyptian fleets controlled most of the coasts of Asia Minor and Greece, and the kingdom was enlarged by Ptolemy's marriage to Berenice, daughter and heiress of the king of Cyrene.

Seleucus II Callinicus (247-226 B.C.) was the son of Antiochus II.  On his father's death there was a struggle for the throne between Seleucus and his stepmother, Berenice on behalf of her infant son. Seleucus murdered both Berenice and her son before her brother Ptolemy III of Egypt could arrive. A long war with Ptolemy ensued. Seleucus also had to wage war with his own brother, Antiochus, for Asia Minor.  He was succeeded by his son Seleucus III, who was killed after a three-year reign.

11:10-13 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress. And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand. And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it. For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.

Ptolemy IV Philopator (221-205 B.C.) was the son of Ptolemy III and Berenice of Cyrene. He had his mother, his brother, his uncle, and possibly his wife (who was his sister Arsinoe) killed. Antiochus III invaded the Egyptian lands in Palestine and Ptolemy managed to defeat him at Raphia, but the administration disintegrated in Egypt. His main interest was building remarkable ships, each equipped with 4,000 oars.

Antiochus III the Great (223-187 B.C.) was the son of Seleucus II and younger brother of Seleucus III, whom he succeeded.  At his accession the Seleucid empire was in decline but he did much to revive its glory. He led an expedition to the eastern provinces and went as far as India. Although he was defeated earlier by the Egyptians he and Philip V of Macedon undertook to wrest Egyptian territories from the boy king, Ptolemy V.

Antiochus did not properly appreciate the growing power of Rome. While Philip V was engaged by the Roman armies, Antiochus recovered Syria and Asia Minor. In 199 B.C. he won a decisive victory over the Egyptians, and Palestine then reverted to Syria, having been under Egyptian rule for almost a century. In 196 he seized the Thracian Chersonese and thus alarmed the Greeks. They as well as the Egyptians sought the aid of the Romans. Antiochus waited and then challenged Rome by accepting the invitation of the Aetolian League to interfere in Greece in 192. The Romans crushed him in 191 at Thermopylae and again at Magnesia. He also lost a number of naval engagements, and in 188 he was forced to give up all his territory west of the Taurus.

Thus the Seleucid empire became a purely inland Asian state, and dreams of reviving Alexander's empire died. "So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand. But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed. He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found," (15-19).

11:14-15 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall. So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

11:20-22 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205-180 B.C.) was the son of Ptolemy IV. He succeeded to the throne as a small boy and his reign began with disastrous civil wars.  Invasions by Antiochus III of Syria and Philip V of Macedon cost Egypt all of Palestine and the Egyptian possessions in Asia Minor. Antiochus defeated Ptolemy decisively at the Battle of Panion in 200 B.C. Peace was confirmed by the marriage of Ptolemy to Cleopatra, daughter of Antiochus. Egypt was much weakened when his reign ended.

Seleucus IV Philopator (187-175 B.C.) son of Antiochus III. As the price of ascending the throne Seleucus was forced to send his son Demetrius as hostage to Rome. While Antiochus the Great had built up the empire, his futile attempts to take Greece against the Romans depleted the treasury. Under Seleucus IV the economy and empire begun to recover, but slowly. Having heard that the temple treasury in Jerusalem was wealthy, Seleucus wondered why some of the tribute was being withheld. He sent one of his ministers, Heliodorus, to investigate. Heliodorus returned and assassinated Seleucus IV by bribing his army. He seized the throne in 175 B.C. and was immediately deposed by Antiochus IV.

*Matthew 24:3, "And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"

When the man in white linen approached Daniel he said, "Fear not, Daniel, from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to chasten yourself before God, your words were heard, and I am here because of your  words." Although Daniel's prayer is not recorded, we cannot help but wonder because of the man's words to him. Was he questioning the same things that Jesus' disciples asked nearly 600 years later? "When will these things be? What is the sign of your coming and the end of the world?"

Dan 11:22-28 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time. And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him. Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain. And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.

Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 B.C.) was the son of Ptolemy V. He became king as an infant and his mother, Cleopatra, was regent. After her death, Antiochus IV of Syria invaded Egypt, and Ptolemy was captured at Pelusium. He was forced to share the rule with his wife, Cleopatra, and his brother, Ptolemy Physcon who ruled over Cyrene. Trouble between the brothers ultimately caused the intervention of Rome. Ptolemy aided Demetrius II to gain the throne of Syria and was killed in battle with the rival claimant, Alexander Balas. His young son succeeded to the throne but was put to death as soon as Ptolemy Physcon could reach Egypt.

In our study of Daniel chapter eight, we looked at Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-163 B.C.) who was the son of Antiochus III and successor of his brother Seleucus IV. Antiochus is best known for his attempt to Hellenize Judaea and extirpate Judaism. A policy that instigated the rebellion of the Maccabees.  Antiochus invaded Egypt, which was torn by strife between Ptolemy VI and his brother. He would probably have conquered that region if the Romans had not intervened in his siege of Alexandria in 168 B.C. Antiochus was briefly succeeded by his son, Antiochus V, who was overthrown by Demetrius I.

*Mark 13:14-19, "But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be."

11:29-35 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter. For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. And some of them of understanding shall fall, 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.

In 175 B.C. a delegation of Jews returned to Jerusalem from Antioch in Syria. They had visited the Syrian king Antiochus IV, and presented him with a revolutionary proposal concerning the government of Judea. They came back triumphant because he had granted them what they had asked and the proposal became the law. These men were the leaders of the "Hellenizers," Jews who embraced the Greek way of life. 

Their leader, Jason, was now declared high priest of the Jews. Jason's brother, Onias, the lawful high priest, was deposed and placed under arrest. The traditional government by priests and clan chiefs was abolished, to be replaced by a Greek style city-state. Jason even planned to change the name of the Holy City from Jerusalem to Antioch, after Antiochus IV. An official list of citizens was drawn up, leaving the majority of Jerusalem's Jews with no civic status and no effective voice in public affairs.

The people were outraged.  No king had ever presumed to meddle with the government of the Jews. Jerusalemites watched indignantly as the Hellenizers carried through their revolution.  To prepare their sons for citizenship, these would-be Greeks built a gymnasium within sight of the temple. Young Hellenized Jews now spent their days there, exercising in the nude, wrestling and throwing the discus. Even the young priests were forsaking the temple for the gymnasium.

Their dress was equally offensive to devout Jews. They walked through the streets of Jerusalem wearing abbreviated skirts, a short, fluttering cloak of bright stripes, zigzags or polka dots, and brooches at the shoulders. Worst of all, they wore the wide-brimmed "Greek hat," the badge of gymnasium membership. Modeled after the hat worn by the god Hermes, the Greek hat was an abominable sign to religious Jews. This seemed final proof of the Hellenizers' treason. The Hellenizers had abandoned the holy covenant. They joined with the Gentiles and sold themselves to do evil.

Within three years fights between conservatives and Hellenizers became an everyday occurrence. The streets of Jerusalem were no longer safe for anyone. Then, to make matters worse, Jason and his followers were thrown out of office by another faction of Hellenizers who plundered the temple treasury, where many of Jerusalem's poor had deposited their life savings. Fighting increased with the threat of rebellion. When the former high priest Onias echoed the popular outcry, he was assassinated.

That was the last straw and in 170 B.C. Jerusalem rose in revolt. A force of 3000 Hellenizers marched on  the rebels, but the angry crowd stood its ground and routed them. Antiochus acted to prevent further disorder and had Onias' assassin executed and even went so far as to sympathize publicly with the rebellious Jews. Order was temporarily restored.

A year later in the summer 169 B.C., Antiochus invaded Egypt, which had also been Hellenized, with a great expeditionary force, including chariots, elephants, and a fleet of ships. Though he marched through Israel, Antiochus did not go to Jerusalem.

Jerusalem's common people were well aware of the king's grandiose plans to unite Egypt and Asia under one rule and thus become the most powerful ruler on earth, a new Alexander the Great. They had seen the coins he issued bearing the image of the Olympian Zeus (with features closely resembling his own) and stamped with his assumed title, Epiphanes, meaning "god manifest." Jerusalem's Hellenizers supported him, but no one seemed to know exactly what was happening in the Egyptian campaign. Rumors prevailed and a feeling of impending disaster pervaded the air.

In the autumn of 169 B.C. a startling rumor came that Antiochus was dead. The people, incensed by the confusion and disorder prepared to rise. Fighting broke out in the streets. At this moment the king himself, still very much alive, appeared in Jerusalem at the head of a large army. He had just been forced to abandon Egypt on a threat of war with the Romans, whose policy was to maintain a balance of power in the East. Finding Judea in turmoil, he assumed that the Jews were in revolt. In response he ordered a massacre.

With Jerusalem subdued, Antiochus went on to plunder the temple. Helped by the dishonest high priest, he confiscated a sum equivalent to several million dollars. Then, after defiling and looting the sanctuary itself, he returned to Syria.

In 167 B.C., before the people had recovered from Antiochus' first onslaught, he sent another army under a general named Apollonius. On the Sabbath when Jews could neither work nor bear arms, the army entered the city unopposed. Apollonius' soldiers plundered and set fire to much of Jerusalem. Next they tore down the city walls and set up a heavily fortified camp on a hill overlooking the temple. This hill, called the "Acra" would be their stronghold for 25 years.

By now residents of Jerusalem were fleeing and taking refuge wherever they could. Hellenizers and their families started moving to safety within the Syrian garrison on the Acra, but only the rich and influential could afford to stay there. Most other  Jews, whatever their allegiance, moved away if they could. The Holy City had become a dwelling of strangers.

Later in the same year, Antiochus proceeded from political repression to religious persecution, something no Greek ruler had ever done before. His first step was to issue a proclamation stating that all should be united as one people and that non-Greeks should give up their ancestral customs and adopt customs prescribed by the king. He addressed this order to the entire kingdom, and throughout his lands in Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and parts of Asia Minor.

Then Antiochus moved directly against the Jews. In hundreds of letters carried by messengers to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judea, he directed them to follow customs strange to the land. To profane sabbaths and feasts, to defile the sanctuary and the priests, to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and unclean animals, and to leave their sons uncircumcised. The decree ended with the words: "And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die."

The king's command was enforced to the letter. In mid-December 167 B.C. Syrian authorities rededicated the temple to the Olympian Zeus. A statue of the god (which had been sculpted to look like Antiochus himself) was set up, and pigs were sacrificed in front of it on the altar of burnt offering.

The Jewish law itself was the chief target of Antiochus. A man could neither keep the sabbath, nor observe the feasts of his fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew. Possession of the scriptures was made a capital offense. The members of a congregation caught secretly observing the Sabbath were all burned alive.

*I John 2:18, "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time."

Many had begun to despair of Israel's survival when a book suddenly appeared in their midst. No one knew where Daniel came from, but at once copies were passing from hand to hand among the faithful. Some believed it was the work of a prophet who had lived almost 400 years earlier in Babylonia. Why had no one ever heard of Daniel and his book? The book itself answered this question. It had been concealed by divine command until the moment of crisis when its message would be needed by the children of Israel.

All over the country, people gathered in secret to listen while scribes read Daniel aloud, half singing its rapturous visions. Composed in the highly colored language favored by the common folk, the message was an electrifying one. Hold out for another three years, and you will cleanse the temple, it proclaimed. Keep fighting a Messiah is coming and Israel will become God's kingdom on earth. Throughout that year many listened and believed.

One of the many heads of families fleeing Jerusalem at this time was an aged priest named Mattathias. He took his five sons, John, Simon, Judas, Eleazar, and Jonathan, to the family's ancestral village of Modein, some 17 miles north-west of Jerusalem.

Antiochus' persecutions quickly spread beyond the capital, however, and soon an official arrived in Modein to enforce the royal edict. He publicly invited Mattathias, an honored elder, to set a good example by performing a small sacrifice in Greek fashion on the village altar. Mattathias vehemently refused. When another Jew advanced to fulfill the royal command, Mattathias rushed forward and killed both the Jew and the official and tore down the altar.

Then Mattathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying, "Let every one who is zealous for the law and supports the covenant come out with me!" He and his sons fled to the hills and left all that they had in the city. Thus began the Maccabee Revolt named after Mattathias' son Judas called Maccabee.

Three years later, in December 164 B.C., they rose and offered sacrifice, as the law directs, on the new altar of burnt offering which they had built. At the very season and on the very day that the Gentiles had profaned it, it was dedicated with songs and harps and lutes and cymbals. All the people fell on their faces and worshiped and blessed Heaven, who had prospered them. So they celebrated the dedication of the altar for eight days, and offered burnt offerings with gladness. There was very great gladness among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was removed. The annual winter festival of Hannukah commemorates this event.

Things were going badly for Antiochus in the East. When he learned that Jerusalem and its temple were in Jewish hands and that the Jews had taken the offensive throughout Palestine, he fell ill.  In the summer of 164 B.C. he was stricken with a loathsome physical malady which affected his mind. His death followed soon afterward.*

*Luke 21:7-9, 20, 32-33, "And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away."

Seventy weeks were determined on the nation of Israel, yet, there is more to the interpretation in Daniel chapter 11 that seems to have no place in what has been fulfilled in the annals of history.  The belief that Messiah would arrive at the time of Antiochus Epiphanes was never fulfilled during that generation. The kingdom of God was not restored on the earth and Israel would once again be under the authority of a new power; the Roman Empire.

Approximately 200 years later  Messiah would ride into Jerusalem and enter the temple, but the words of Daniel were only a din. The people did not understand the "time appointed." Jesus spoke of another generation that would see those things which were spoken by the prophet Daniel. A generation that would not pass away until all is fulfilled.

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11:36-45 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

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.

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.

 

& Although verses 29-35 have been fulfilled in part by the exploits of Antiochus Epiphanes verses 36-45 still remain unfulfilled.  Next we are going to look at the prophesies as recorded in gospels and Revelation before proceeding to chapter 12. Just who or what is the "abomination of desolation" as spoken by Daniel the prophet will be our main focus. Please add your observations on chapter 11 to your observation sheet.  You will need to add one more observation sheet to your study entitled "The Abomination of Desolation."

*References taken from: "Great People of the Bible and How They Lived" Reader's Digest, 1971