Daniel 11

Daniel 11:20-45

Garland comments that… The movement of these kings probably contributes to the “news from the east and the north” which disturbs the Antichrist (Da 11:44). (See Campaign of Armageddon) He will go forth with great wrath - While the Antichrist is dominating North Africa, he is made aware of these rumors which cause him to go back into the beautiful land in a state of great rage. Destroy (08045) (shamad) is a verb meaning "be destroyed, decimated, perished, overthrown, exterminated, i.e., pertaining to being in a totally ruined state, which can include death of a person or extinction of an entity." (Swanson) The destruction depicted by shamad usually involves a rather sudden catastrophe such as warfare or a mass killing. For example in Dt 6:15 God says He will "wipe" Israel off the face of the earth, so great was His anger against them! It is worth noting that the last OT use of shamad is one of the greatest for the nation of Israel, the prophet Zechariah recording "And in that day (WHAT DAY - Read Zechariah 12:1-14+) I (JEHOVAH/YAHWEH HIMSELF) will set about to destroy all (HOW MANY?) the nations that come against Jerusalem." (Zechariah 12:9+) Anti-Semitism will be obliterated! The prophet Isaiah gives a prophecy that should startle every person who is not a believer in the Messiah - "Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it." (Isa. 13:9+) Many of the uses of shamad have God as the subject rendering the destruction, sometimes against Israel's enemies, sometimes threatening Israel herself or Aaron her priest (see uses below in Deuteronomy 9 and Deuteronomy 28)! In Esther 3:6 Haman sought to destroy all the Jews! If this had happened there would have been no ancestral line from which the Messiah might arise! When the Messiah returns a second time He will "set about to destroy (Lxx = exairo = to expel, drive out, lift off the earth, remove) all the nations that come against Jerusalem." (Zechariah 12:9) and "will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy (Lxx = olethreuo = kill, destroy, used o nly in NT in Heb 11:28 of the "death angel" in the Passover) the power of the kingdoms of the nations." Of Babylon God says he will "I will sweep it with the broom of destruction (Lxx = apoleia)" a prophecy that was partially fulfilled in 539BC when the Medo-Persians conquered Babylon (Da 5:30-31-note, Persian Conquest), but which will finally and fully be fulfilled in Revelation 18:21-note! (See also Babylon's Predicted Destruction) The Lxx has aphanizo (in Da 11:44) which means to cause to disappear, to make invisible or unrecognizable. What a vivid word picture of the effect of this Hebrew word shamad! Gilbrant - The Lord promised that if the Israelites did not obey his decrees and laws, He would "destroy your high places… make your cities waste" (Lev. 26:30f). When Israel was given their inheritance in Canaan, they were commanded by the Lord to "drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their [idols], and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: And you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land" (Num. 33:52f).The Hiphil forms sometimes refer to the destruction of human beings. The Israelites had murmured against Moses and complained against God that He had brought them out of Egypt to deliver them into the hands of the Amorites to destroy Israel (Deut. 1:27). Among the nations and lands which the Lord commanded Israel not to possess on their way to Canaan was Edom, or Mount Seir. In earlier times, that territory had been the possession of the Horites: "But the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them… and dwelt in their stead," in land which they had received from the Lord (Dt 2:12, 22). The Ammonites similarly received land from the Lord, which had belonged to the Zamzummim, whom "the Lord destroyed" (cf. Dt 2:20f). The villages of Gaza had been taken from the Avvim, who were destroyed by the Caphtorim (Dt 2:23). The wicked minister of Persia, Haman, also sought to destroy the Jews, though God thwarted him through the courageous intercession of Esther (Est. 3:6). The infinitive is used as a substantive in the prophecies of Isaiah in reference to the fate of Babylon that the Lord would ultimately rise up against the city and would "sweep it with the besom of destruction" (Isa. 14:23). References to destruction of whole families and potential descendants are contained in the Hiphil forms. The house of Jeroboam I was cut off and exterminated because the king consecrated priests for the high places, where the pagans had worshiped idols, from any tribe of Israel, though Levi had been selected by God for such service (1Ki 13:33f). In En-Gedi, David spared the life of King Saul, though the king had been hunting him to kill him. A humbled and repentant Saul then extracted a promise from David that the young man who would one day be king would not exterminate in Israel the name of Saul or his descendants (1Sa 24:20f). The passive Niphal forms mean "to be laid waste," "to be exterminated," "to be destroyed." Land such as plains or fields can be destroyed, as was prophesied of Moab according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah (Jer. 48:8). High places on hills were designated for destruction since worship of the sun and other idols occurred on them (Hos. 10:8). Israel promised not to make graven images or do evil by disobeying the ordinances of the Lord, lest they would be destroyed utterly by "cursing, vexation, and rebuke" sent from God because they had forsaken Him (Deut. 28:20; cf. Dt 4:26). Thus, whole peoples could experience destruction. Individuals could be cut off as well. As a result of his sons' rash action of killing all the men of Shechem, Jacob feared that he and his whole family would be destroyed by the neighboring peoples (Gen. 34:30). The psalmist David declared, "Transgressors will be destroyed together: the end of the wicked will be cut off," to indicate that the Lord blesses the righteous man but punishes the wicked (Ps. 37:38). (Complete Biblical Library) Shamad - 86v - NAS Usage: completely(1), demolish(2), destroy(36), destroyed(41), destruction(2), eradicated(1), exterminate(2), totally destroy(1), utterly destroyed(1), wipe(1). Gen. 34:30; Lev. 26:30; Num. 33:52; Deut. 1:27; Deut. 2:12; Deut. 2:21; Deut. 2:22; Deut. 2:23; Deut. 4:3; Deut. 4:26; Deut. 6:15; Deut. 7:4; Deut. 7:23; Deut. 7:24; Deut. 9:3; Deut. 9:8; Deut. 9:14; Deut. 9:19; Deut. 9:20; Deut. 9:25; Deut. 12:30; Deut. 28:20; Deut. 28:24; Deut. 28:45; Deut. 28:48; Deut. 28:51; Deut. 28:61; Deut. 28:63; Deut. 31:3; Deut. 31:4; Deut. 33:27; Jos. 7:12; Jos. 9:24; Jos. 11:14; Jos. 11:20; Jos. 23:15; Jos. 24:8; Jdg. 21:16; 1 Sam. 24:21; 2 Sam. 14:7; 2 Sam. 14:11; 2 Sam. 14:16; 2 Sam. 21:5; 2 Sam. 22:38; 1 Ki. 13:34; 1 Ki. 15:29; 1 Ki. 16:12; 2 Ki. 10:17; 2 Ki. 10:28; 2 Ki. 21:9; 1 Chr. 5:25; 2 Chr. 20:10; 2 Chr. 20:23; 2 Chr. 33:9; Est. 3:6; Est. 3:13; Est. 4:8; Est. 7:4; Est. 8:11; Ps. 37:38; Ps. 83:10; Ps. 92:7; Ps. 106:23; Ps. 106:34; Ps. 145:20; Prov. 14:11; Isa. 10:7; Isa. 13:9; Isa. 14:23; Isa. 23:11; Isa. 26:14; Isa. 48:19; Jer. 48:8; Jer. 48:42; Lam. 3:66; Ezek. 14:9; Ezek. 25:7; Ezek. 32:12; Ezek. 34:16; Dan. 11:44; Hos. 10:8; Amos 2:9; Amos 9:8; Mic. 5:14; Hag. 2:22; Zech. 12:9 Annihilate (02763) (charam) means to completely destroy, to devote to destruction, to exterminate, to annihilate, to doom with the ultimate idea of bringing about a complete and utter destruction. Haram - 51x in 47v NAS = annihilate(1), covet(1), destroy them utterly(1), destroy utterly(1), destroyed them utterly(1), destroying(1), destroying them completely(2), destruction(2), devote(2), forfeited(1), set apart(1), sets apart(1), utterly destroy(11), utterly destroyed(22), utterly destroying(3). - Ex 22:20; Lev 27:28, 29; Nu 21:2, 3; Deut 2:34; 3:6; 7:2; 13:15; 20:17; Josh 2:10; 6:18, 21; 8:26; 10:1, 28, 35, 37, 39, 40; 11:11, 12, 20, 21; Jdg 1:17; 21:11; 1Sa 15:3, 8, 9, 15, 18, 20; 1Kgs 9:21; 2Kgs 19:11; 1Chr 4:41; 2Chr 20:23; 32:14; Ezra 10:8; Isa 11:15; 34:2; 37:11; Jer 25:9; 50:21, 26; 51:3; Da 11:44; Mic 4:13. Mounce adds that haram…is used most often to designate cities that are to be utterly destroyed. This involves the total annihilation of the human and animal population and the burning of all items not given over in consecration to God. On several occasions, God commands Israel to destroy the cities of Canaan and other neighboring nations (Nu 21:2, 3; Dt 2:34; Jos 8:26), but there are also instances of foreign nations following the practice (2 Ki. 19:11; 2 Chr. 20:23; Da 11:44). Isaiah writes that Yahweh has devoted the foreign nations to the ban (Isa 34:2). These nations are devoted to the ban because of their sin: prolonged immoral and idolatrous practices and hostility against God and his people (cf. Ge 15:16; Deut 7:4, 5, 25, 26; 9:5). (See Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan) Daniel 11:45 HE WILL PITCH THE TENTS OF HIS ROYAL PAVILION BETWEEN THE SEAS AND THE BEAUTIFUL HOLY MOUNTAIN; YET HE WILL COME TO HIS END, AND NO ONE WILL HELP HIM. Between: Joel 2:20 Zec 14:8 And the: Da 11:16,41 Ps 48:2 Isa 2:2 14:13 Mic 4:2 2Th 2:4 He will come: Da 2:35 7:26 8:25 Eze 38:22,23 39:2 2Th 2:8 Rev 13:10 14:14-20 Rev 19:19-21 20:2,9 Daniel 11 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries FINIS! He will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion - He is the Antichrist. While the exact meaning is uncertain, this event may correspond the the gathering of the armies at Armageddon. The apostle John records… And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon. (Rev 16:16-note) (See also the Campaign of Armageddon) (See map of proposed Campaign of Armageddon drawn by Arnold Fruchtenbaum) Gangel observes that "Megiddo, mentioned twelve times in the Old Testament (Josh. 12:21; 17:11; Jdg 1:27; 5:19; 1Kgs. 4:12; 9:15; 2Kgs. 9:27; 23:29, 30; 1Chr. 7:29; 2Chr. 35:22; Zech 12:11), lies on a major highway connecting Egypt with Syria. No one can say with certainty that Daniel 11:45 and Revelation 16:16 indicate the exact geographical site of the final battle between good and evil, but no interpretation makes any better sense (Ed note: Gangel like many identifies Armageddon as a "battle" when it is more accurately a campaign or a war - see Campaign of Armageddon). Daniel's angel seems to say that the great world leader finds his final defeat right there (See Holman Old Testament Commentary - Daniel) Between the seas - the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Map of Jerusalem in 1925, showing the location of Mount Moriah according to Jewish sources (click to enlarge) The beautiful mountain - Mount Moriah, the place of Temple Mount. Yet he will come to his end - This describes the demise, destruction and decree of judgment of the Antichrist. The end of Antichrist is described in multiple passages… Then I kept looking because of the sound of the boastful words which the (Little) horn (the Antichrist) was speaking; I kept looking until the beast (the Antichrist) was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire. (Da 7:11) “I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them 22 until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom. (Da 7:21-22) ‘But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever. (Da 7:26) And then that lawless one (the Antichrist) will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming (as described in Rev 19:11-20+) (2Th 2:8+) And I saw the beast (the Antichrist) and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. And the beast (the Antichrist) was seized, and with him the false prophet (Beast #2, "another beast" of Revelation 13 - Re 13:11, 12, 13, 14+) who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone. (Rev 19:19+, Rev 19:20-+ including discussion of the "Lake of Fire"). John