Vol 01 - The King in Daniel

The King in Daniel

Daniel.-1. " The king," in Daniel 11:36, is, without doubt to my mind, the political side of the same person whom St. John designates religiously or irreligiously as "the Antichrist." It is clear from Daniel that his seat of power is "the Holy Land," the object of attacks at the close from the powers of the South and of the North (1:e. Egypt, and Syria or Turkey, of our days). However, his destruction is reserved for the Lord Himself, appearing from heaven (2 Thessalonians 2:8; Revelation 19:20). It is of the Syrian power (whoever then may hold it that the last verses of Daniel 11:1-45 speak. He also falls by Divine judgment (see Daniel 8:25; Daniel 11:45).

2. The relation of Daniel to the Revelation is a wide subject; but this I may briefly say, that, as Daniel reveals the results of the failure of the earthly people Israel, so Revelation presents the consequences of the failure of the heavenly testimony throughout Christendom and the world at large. This remark may help to show the analogy and the difference between the two prophecies. What the former was to the Jew, the latter is to the church.