THIS IS NOT ENTIRELY CORRECT!!!
1
And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede [Ruling as a vassal of Cyrus in Babylon - so starting on 538Nisan1]
I stood up as a strengthener and as a fortress to him.
2
And now what is truth I shall tell to you: Look! There will yet be 3 kings standing up for Persia [Cambyses (529-522), Smerdis (Guamata), who only ruled for 7/8 months in 522 BC, he never got a regnal year, being killed by Darius Hystapes (521-486) - these are regnal years - see Herodotus Histories III]
and the 4th one [Xerxes 1 (Ahasuerus who married Esther)]
will amass greater riches than all [others]. And as soon as he has become strong in his riches, he will rouse up everything against the kingdom of Greece [Xerxes 1 was delayed at Thermopylae, sacked Athens, and was defeated at Salamis and Plataea].
3
And a mighty king will certainly stand up and rule with extensive dominion and do according to his will [Alexander the Great in 336 BC].
4
And when he will have stood up, his kingdom will be broken and be divided toward the 4 winds of the heavens, but not to his posterity and not according to his dominion with which he had ruled; because his kingdom will be uprooted, even for others than these [to the 4 generals: Antigonus Monophthalmus then Seleucus Nicator of Assyria, Syria,
Babylon, Media, Persia in the North, Cassander of Macedonia in the West, Ptolemy Lagus of Egypt, Libya, Arabia Israel, in the South, Lysimachus of Asia in the East - all Alexander's offspring were killed].
5
And the king of the south [the physical king over the house of Judah, the southern kingdom of Israel - Ptolemy Lagos]
will become strong, and out of/from his [Alexander's generals] he [the king of the South] will become strong more than he [the king of the North,
the king over the northern kingdom of Israel - Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates as was promised to and ]
and will ruler a greater kingdom than kingdom of him [the king of the North].
6
And at the end of [some] years they will ally themselves with each other, and the very daughter of the king of the south [Berenice the daughter of Ptolemy II - ]
will come to the king of the north [Antiochus II]
in order to make an alliance [This is not described as a marriage, since Antiochus divorced his first wife Laodice to achieve it]. But she will not retain the power of her arm; and he will not stand, neither his arm; and she will be given up, she herself, and those bringing her in, and he who caused her birth, and the one making her strong in [those] times [When Ptolemy II died, Laodice organised the murder of Berenice and her son - ]
.
7
And one from the sprout of her roots will certainly stand up in his position [her brother a shoot from her parental roots, Ptolemy III replaced his father],
and he will come to the military force and come against the fortress of the king of the north [Seleucus II Callinicus,
the son of Laodice who poisoned her husband Antiochus II after he took her back]
and will certainly act against them and prevail [Callinicus - 'the gloriously triumphant' was defeated and forced out of Syria and Seleucia his sea port].
8
And also with their gods, with their molten images, with their desirable articles of silver and of gold [literal silver and literal gold], [and] with the captives he will come to Egypt [Ptolemy III conquered as far as the shores of India and repatriated the stolen molten image Gods of Egypt from Susa in Persia and from Babylon - he became know as Evergetes - the benefactor by the Egyptians, returning 2500 molten images and 4,000 talents of gold and 40,000 talents of silver. He died in 221 BC].
And he himself will for [some] years stand off from the king of the north.
9
And he [Seleucus II]
will actually come into the kingdom of the king of the south [he was defeated again by Ptolemy III in 242 BC]
and go back to his own land [hmda].
10
Now as for his sons, they will excite themselves and actually gather together a crowd of large military forces. And in coming he will certainly come and flood over and pass through. But he will go back, and he will excite himself all the way to his fortress.
11
And the king of the south will embitter himself and will have to go forth and fight with him, [that is,] with the king of the north; and he will certainly have a large crowd stand up, and the crowd will actually be given into the hand of that one.
12
And the crowd will certainly be carried away. His heart will become exalted, and he will actually cause tens of thousands to fall; but he will not use his strong position.
13
And the king of the north must return and set up a crowd larger than the first;
and at the end of the times, [some] years, he will come, doing so with a great military force and with a great deal of goods.
14
And in those times there will be many who will stand up against the king of the south. And the sons of the robbers belonging to your people will, for their part, be carried along to try making a vision come true; and they will have to stumble.
15
And the king of the north will come and throw up a siege rampart and actually capture a city with fortifications. And as for the arms of the south, they will not stand, neither the people of his picked ones; and there will be no power to keep standing.
16
And the one coming against him will do according to his will, and there will be no one standing before him. And he will stand in the land of the Decoration, and there will be extermination in his hand.
17
And he will set his face to come with the forcefulness of his entire kingdom,
and there will be equitable [terms] with him; and he will act effectively. And as regards the daughter of womankind, it will be granted to him to bring her to ruin. And she will not stand, and she will not continue to be his.
18
And he will turn his face back to the coastlands and will actually capture many.
And a commander will have to make the reproach from him cease for himself, [so that] his reproach will not be. He will make it turn back upon that one.
19
And he will turn his face back to the fortresses of his [own] land, and he will certainly stumble and fall, and he will not be found.
20
And there must stand up in his position one who is causing an exactor [exacting task for everyone, either a tax or a registration, here a huge tax to Rome paid by Seleucus Philopater - 1,000 talents a year for his father's defeat]
to pass through the splendid kingdom, and in a few days he will be broken, but not in anger nor in warfare [He was assassinated in treachery by Heliodorus].
21
And there must stand up in his position one who is to be despised, and they will certainly not set upon him the dignity of [the] kingdom; and he will actually come in during a freedom from care and take hold of [the] kingdom by means of smoothness [] .
22
And as regards the arms of the flood, they will be flooded over on account of him, and they will be broken []; as will also the Leader of [the] covenant [the leader of the Law Covenant].
23
And because of their [] allying themselves with him he will carry on deception and actually come up and become mighty by means of a little nation [].
24
During freedom from care, even into the fatness of the jurisdictional district he will enter in [] and actually do what his fathers and the fathers of his fathers have not done [].
Plunder and spoil and goods he will scatter among them; and against fortified places he will scheme out his schemes, but only until a time [].
25
And he will arouse his power and his heart against the king of the south []
with a great military force; and the king of the south, for his part, []
will excite himself for the war with an exceedingly great and mighty military force. And he will not stand, because they will scheme out against him schemes.
26
And the very ones eating his delicacies will bring his breakdown. And as for his military force, it will be flooded away, and many will certainly fall down slain.
27
And as regards these 2 kings [], their heart will be inclined to doing what is bad, and at one table a lie is what they will keep speaking. But nothing will succeed, because [the] end is yet for the time appointed.
28
And he will go back to his land []
with a great amount of goods, and his heart will be against the holy covenant []. And he will act effectively and certainly go back to his land.
29
At the time appointed he will go back, and he will actually come against the south; but it will not prove to be at the last the same as at the first.
30
And there will certainly come against him the ships of Kittim [], and he will have to become dejected. And he will actually go back and hurl denunciations against the holy covenant and act effectively; and he will have to go back and will give consideration to those leaving the holy covenant.
31
And there will be arms that will stand up, proceeding from him; and they will actually profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and remove the constant [feature].
And they will certainly put in place the disgusting thing that is causing desolation [].
32
And those who are acting wickedly against [the] covenant, he will lead into apostasy by means of smooth words. But as regards the people who are knowing their God, they will prevail and act effectively.
33
And as regards those having insight among the people, they will impart understanding to the many []. And they will certainly be made to stumble by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plundering, for [some]
days.
34
But when they are made to stumble they will be helped with a little help []; and many will certainly join themselves to them by means of smoothness.
35
And some of those having insight will be made to stumble, in order to do a refining work because of them and to do a cleansing and to do a whitening, until the time of [the] end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
36
And the king [UN] will actually do according to his own will, and he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god; and against the God of gods he will speak marvelous things. And he will certainly prove successful until [the] denunciation will have come to a finish; because the thing decided upon must be done.
37
And to the God of his fathers he will give no consideration; and to the desire of/for women []
and to every other god he will give no consideration, but over everyone he will magnify himself.
38
But to the god of fortresses [], in his position he will give glory; and to a god that his fathers [] did not know he will give glory by means of gold and by means of silver and by means of precious stone and by means of desirable things [].
39
And he will act effectively against the most fortified strongholds, along with/aligned with a foreign god [].
Whoever has given [him] recognition he will make abound with glory, and he will actually make them rule among many; and [the] land [hmda]
he will apportion out for a price [].
40
And in the time of [the] end the king of the south [Islam]
will engage with him [UN]
in a pushing, and against him [Islam]
the king of the north [Chistendom]
will storm with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships []; and he []
will certainly enter into the lands [] and flood over pass and pass through.
41
He [The UN] will also actually enter into the land of the Decoration [Israel],
and there will be many [ones] that will be made to stumble []. But these are the ones that will escape out of his hand, Edom [] and Moab [] and the main part of the sons of Ammon [].
42
And he will keep thrusting out his hand against the lands; and as regards the land of Egypt, she will not prove to be an escapee.
43
And he will actually control/rule over the hidden treasures of the gold and the silver [New UN currency]
and over all the desirable things of Egypt
[physical treasures]. And the Libyans [] and the Ethiopians [] will be at his steps.
44
But there will be reports that will disturb him, out of the sunrising [East of Israel] and out of the north [of Israel],
and he will certainly go forth in a great rage in order to annihilate and to devote many to destruction.
45
And he will plant his tents of the palace [UN is the King of the world at this time. Tents are expeditionary accommodation. So we have a royal expedition to Israel]
between [the] grand sea [Mediterranean] and the holy mountain of Decoration [];
and he will have to come all the way to his end, and there will be no helper for him [].
DANIEL CHAPTER 12
1
And during that time will stand up, the great prince who is standing in behalf of the sons of your people. And there will certainly occur a time of distress such as has not been made to occur since there came to be a nation until that time. And during that time your people will escape, every one who is found written down in the book.
2
And there will be many of those asleep in the ground of dust who will wake up,
these to indefinitely lasting life and those to reproaches [and] to indefinitely lasting abhorrence.
3
And the ones having insight will shine like the brightness of the expanse; and those who are bringing the many to righteousness, like the stars to time indefinite, even forever.
4
And as for you, Oh Daniel, make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of [the] end. Many will rove about, and the [true] knowledge will become abundant.
1
And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede [Ruling as a vassal of Cyrus in Babylon - so starting on 538Nisan1]
I stood up as a strengthener and as a fortress to him.
2
And now what is truth I shall tell to you: Look! There will yet be 3 kings standing up for Persia [Cambyses (529-522), Smerdis (Guamata), who only ruled for 7/8 months in 522 BC, he never got a regnal year, being killed by Darius Hystapes (521-486) - these are regnal years - see Herodotus Histories III]
and the 4th one [Xerxes 1 (Ahasuerus who married Esther)]
will amass greater riches than all [others]. And as soon as he has become strong in his riches, he will rouse up everything against the kingdom of Greece [Xerxes 1 was delayed at Thermopylae, sacked Athens, and was defeated at Salamis and Plataea].
3
And a mighty king will certainly stand up and rule with extensive dominion and do according to his will [Alexander the Great in 336 BC].
4
And when he will have stood up, his kingdom will be broken and be divided toward the 4 winds of the heavens, but not to his posterity and not according to his dominion with which he had ruled; because his kingdom will be uprooted, even for others than these [to the 4 generals: Antigonus Monophthalmus then Seleucus Nicator of Assyria, Syria,
Babylon, Media, Persia in the North, Cassander of Macedonia in the West, Ptolemy Lagus of Egypt, Libya, Arabia Israel, in the South, Lysimachus of Asia in the East - all Alexander's offspring were killed].
5
And the king of the south [the physical king over the house of Judah, the southern kingdom of Israel - Ptolemy Lagos]
will become strong, and out of/from his [Alexander's generals] he [the king of the South] will become strong more than he [the king of the North,
the king over the northern kingdom of Israel - Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates as was promised to and ]
and will ruler a greater kingdom than kingdom of him [the king of the North].
6
And at the end of [some] years they will ally themselves with each other, and the very daughter of the king of the south [Berenice the daughter of Ptolemy II - ]
will come to the king of the north [Antiochus II]
in order to make an alliance [This is not described as a marriage, since Antiochus divorced his first wife Laodice to achieve it]. But she will not retain the power of her arm; and he will not stand, neither his arm; and she will be given up, she herself, and those bringing her in, and he who caused her birth, and the one making her strong in [those] times [When Ptolemy II died, Laodice organised the murder of Berenice and her son - ]
.
7
And one from the sprout of her roots will certainly stand up in his position [her brother a shoot from her parental roots, Ptolemy III replaced his father],
and he will come to the military force and come against the fortress of the king of the north [Seleucus II Callinicus,
the son of Laodice who poisoned her husband Antiochus II after he took her back]
and will certainly act against them and prevail [Callinicus - 'the gloriously triumphant' was defeated and forced out of Syria and Seleucia his sea port].
8
And also with their gods, with their molten images, with their desirable articles of silver and of gold [literal silver and literal gold], [and] with the captives he will come to Egypt [Ptolemy III conquered as far as the shores of India and repatriated the stolen molten image Gods of Egypt from Susa in Persia and from Babylon - he became know as Evergetes - the benefactor by the Egyptians, returning 2500 molten images and 4,000 talents of gold and 40,000 talents of silver. He died in 221 BC].
And he himself will for [some] years stand off from the king of the north.
9
And he [Seleucus II]
will actually come into the kingdom of the king of the south [he was defeated again by Ptolemy III in 242 BC]
and go back to his own land [hmda].
10
Now as for his sons, they will excite themselves and actually gather together a crowd of large military forces. And in coming he will certainly come and flood over and pass through. But he will go back, and he will excite himself all the way to his fortress.
11
And the king of the south will embitter himself and will have to go forth and fight with him, [that is,] with the king of the north; and he will certainly have a large crowd stand up, and the crowd will actually be given into the hand of that one.
12
And the crowd will certainly be carried away. His heart will become exalted, and he will actually cause tens of thousands to fall; but he will not use his strong position.
13
And the king of the north must return and set up a crowd larger than the first;
and at the end of the times, [some] years, he will come, doing so with a great military force and with a great deal of goods.
14
And in those times there will be many who will stand up against the king of the south. And the sons of the robbers belonging to your people will, for their part, be carried along to try making a vision come true; and they will have to stumble.
15
And the king of the north will come and throw up a siege rampart and actually capture a city with fortifications. And as for the arms of the south, they will not stand, neither the people of his picked ones; and there will be no power to keep standing.
16
And the one coming against him will do according to his will, and there will be no one standing before him. And he will stand in the land of the Decoration, and there will be extermination in his hand.
17
And he will set his face to come with the forcefulness of his entire kingdom,
and there will be equitable [terms] with him; and he will act effectively. And as regards the daughter of womankind, it will be granted to him to bring her to ruin. And she will not stand, and she will not continue to be his.
18
And he will turn his face back to the coastlands and will actually capture many.
And a commander will have to make the reproach from him cease for himself, [so that] his reproach will not be. He will make it turn back upon that one.
19
And he will turn his face back to the fortresses of his [own] land, and he will certainly stumble and fall, and he will not be found.
20
And there must stand up in his position one who is causing an exactor [exacting task for everyone, either a tax or a registration]
to pass through the splendid kingdom, and in a few days he will be broken, but not in anger nor in warfare [Caesar Augustus from Luke 2:1 or possibly the Caesar who ordered the 2nd registration].
21
And there must stand up in his position one who is to be despised, and they will certainly not set upon him the dignity of [the] kingdom; and he will actually come in during a freedom from care and take hold of [the] kingdom by means of smoothness [The Roman Catholic Church headed first by Pope Linus, he is appointed by Rome over God's people, not the Jews, but the Christians] .
22
And as regards the arms of the flood, they will be flooded over on account of him, and they will be broken [The power of the water baptism of ends at the ends of which is the start of ]; as will also the Leader of [the] covenant [, the leader of the New Covenant].
23
And because of their [rotten saints] allying themselves with him he will carry on deception and actually come up and become mighty by means of a little nation [Rome, small, but the 6th world power over God's official people, the sons of the ].
24
During freedom from care, even into the fatness of the jurisdictional district he will enter in [The Roman Catholic Church infiltrated //] and actually do what his fathers and the fathers of his fathers have not done [religiously conquer the true people of God. The last time the Romans did this was when Gnaeus Pompey conquered Jerusalem in 63 BC and appointed Hercanus as high priest - Thy will be done p246 - Watchtower].
Plunder and spoil and goods he will scatter among them; and against fortified places he will scheme out his schemes, but only until a time [360 years from 86Tishri to 444Tishri the end of the water baptism of ].
25
And he will arouse his power and his heart against the king of the south [/ causing the end of as a true religion]
with a great military force; and the king of the south, for his part, [/]
will excite himself for the war with an exceedingly great and mighty military force. And he will not stand, because they will scheme out against him schemes.
26
And the very ones eating his delicacies will bring his breakdown. And as for his military force, it will be flooded away, and many will certainly fall down slain.
27
And as regards these 2 kings [/ is king of south. The Roman Catholic Church is the king without the dignity of the kingdom], their heart will be inclined to doing what is bad, and at one table a lie is what they will keep speaking. But nothing will succeed, because [the] end is yet for the time appointed.
28
And he will go back to his land [literal land Rome]
with a great amount of goods, and his heart will be against the holy covenant [the ]. And he will act effectively and certainly go back to his land.
29
At the time appointed he will go back, and he will actually come against the south; but it will not prove to be at the last the same as at the first.
30
And there will certainly come against him the ships of Kittim [congregations of ], and he will have to become dejected. And he will actually go back and hurl denunciations against the holy covenant and act effectively; and he will have to go back and will give consideration to those leaving the holy covenant.
31
And there will be arms that will stand up, proceeding from him; and they will actually profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and remove the constant [feature].
And they will certainly put in place the disgusting thing that is causing desolation [ending as a true religion].
32
And those who are acting wickedly against [the] covenant, he will lead into apostasy by means of smooth words. But as regards the people who are knowing their God, they will prevail and act effectively.
33
And as regards those having insight among the people, they will impart understanding to the many [through ]. And they will certainly be made to stumble by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plundering, for [some]
days.
34
But when they are made to stumble they will be helped with a little help [from the holy spirit, being in the true religion of , this proves there is a second true religion]; and many will certainly join themselves to them by means of smoothness.
35
And some of those having insight will be made to stumble, in order to do a refining work because of them and to do a cleansing and to do a whitening, until the time of [the] end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
36
And the king [not said to be north or south, so the Catholics] will actually do according to his own will, and he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god; and against the God of gods he will speak marvelous things. And he will certainly prove successful until [the] denunciation will have come to a finish; because the thing decided upon must be done.
37
And to the God of his fathers he will give no consideration; and to the desire of/for women [catholic celibacy]
and to every other god he will give no consideration, but over everyone he will magnify himself.
38
But to the god of fortresses [crusades,
pope is head of army], in his position he will give glory; and to a god that his fathers [the sons of ] did not know he will give glory by means of gold and by means of silver and by means of precious stone and by means of desirable things [unrighteous riches - Catholics became a very rich church].
39
And he will act effectively against the most fortified strongholds, along with/aligned with a foreign god [crusades attacking Muslim strongholds].
Whoever has given [him] recognition he will make abound with glory, and he will actually make them rule among many; and [the] land [hmda]
he will apportion out for a price [buy a diocese for a few quid from the Pope - the Catholics invented international Franchising it would appear - Katholic Fried Congregation!].
40
And in the time of [the] end the king of the south []
will engage with him [King without any heavenly authority, no dignity of the Kingdom, the Pope]
in a pushing, and against him [Pope]
the king of the north []
will storm with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships [many congregations of using understandings]; and he [Head of ]
will certainly enter into the lands [Lots of Churches, evangelising understandings trying to build the big final church, having stolen 's baptism, The crown and understandings. The nations in the 4 corners of the earth of Revelation 20] and flood over pass and pass through.
41
He [The head of , ]
will also actually enter into the land of Beauty/Decoration [,
and stole the baptism, he did not enter into the mountain, just the land],
and there will be many [ones] that will be made to stumble [in , since their head has entered the s]. But these are the ones that will escape out of his hand [5 month campaign of competition against the s], Edom [Red]
[ reserves]
and Moab [of the father]
[non saints]
and the main part of the sons of Ammon [Tribal]
[Laodiceans].
42
And he will keep thrusting out his hand against the lands; and as regards the land of Egypt, she will not prove to be an escapee.
43
And he will actually control/rule over the hidden treasures of the gold and the silver [ and saints]
and over all the desirable things of Egypt. And the Libyans [West of Egypt] and the Ethiopians [South of Egypt] will be at his steps.
44
But there will be reports that will disturb him [about everyone joining the s], out of the sunrising [East:
False Religion] and out of the north [],
and he will certainly go forth in a great rage in order to annihilate and to devote many to destruction.
45
And he will plant the tents of his palace [he claims to be the kings of the kings]
between [the] grand sea [those in the ] and the holy mountain of beauty of holiness [Administration of ];
and he will have to come all the way to his end [the end of his rulership over the Watchtower. He eventually becomes an ], and there will be no helper for him [No holy spirit for , since he is running a false church].
DANIEL CHAPTER 12
1
And during that time will stand up, the great prince who is standing in behalf of the sons of your people. And there will certainly occur a time of distress such as has not been made to occur since there came to be a nation until that time. And during that time your people will escape, every one who is found written down in the book.
2
And there will be many of those asleep in the ground of dust who will wake up,
these to indefinitely lasting life and those to reproaches [and] to indefinitely lasting abhorrence.
3
And the ones having insight will shine like the brightness of the expanse; and those who are bringing the many to righteousness, like the stars to time indefinite, even forever.
4
And as for you, Oh Daniel, make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of [the] end. Many will rove about, and the [true] knowledge will become abundant.
There is a great debate between Historical theologians and Evangelical theologians as to whether the exactor of 11:20 is the tax from Rome for the defeat of Antiochus III or it is the registration at the birth of . Likewise whether the time of the end is of the Jewish system of of the world. In fact the former is the literal meaning (so the historical guys were right), but the latter is the first word symbolic meaning (so the evangelical guys were right). For example the excellent www.letgodbetrue.com/daniel/daniel11.htm makes a good historical case. And the 'Your will be Done' book of the s (available on ebay) makes a good evangelical case. Whereas www.raptureready.com makes hardly any case at all but is a lot of fun.
The book 'Your will be Done' , published first in 1958 makes a reasonably good job of this account up to Daniel 11:20 (The beginning of Christianity). But for some reason includes Cyrus the Great as a King who followed Cyrus the Great and fails to grasp what the Kings of the North and South are. It has them as the kings who rule areas to the north and south of modern Israel. When in fact they are the kings which rule over the territory of the greater Northern Kingdom of Israel, up to the Euphrates, and the greater Southern Kingdom of Judah, down to the Nile before . Then they are the king of the greater worship house of Judah, the heavenly temple of the and saints and the king of the greater worship house of Israel the earthly temple of the and the saints after . The whole chapter becomes spiritualised as did the covenants and the church at ' death. For the bible is not the story of the genetic sons of Israel, it is the story of God's people who ceased being the genetic sons of Israel at the Conversion of Cornelius, the end of the .
So the King of the South is the king over the Greater Southern Kingdom of Judah and the King of the North is the king over the Greater Northern Kingdom of Israel up until ' death. Then, after his death, the house of Judah becomes the house of the first new covenant, the royal heavenly house of and . And the house of Israel becomes the house of the second new covenant, the royal earthly house of . So the King of the South is , then , and the King of the North is . starts as the King of the North with the , then becomes the King of the South with , the .