The Eastern Question
“AT THE TIME OF THE END.”
After stating how Alexander’s dominion should thus be divided into its four parts, the angel turns his attention to the two kingdoms,-“the king of the south” and “the king of the north.” And in verses 5 to 14 he treats solely of the succession of principal events occurring between these two powers. At verse 14 the Roman power-“the children of robbers,” margin-enters the field and occupies the angel’s attention for a long time. Finally, in verse 40, he comes to speak of “the time of the end,” and again mentions “the king of the south” and “the king of the north.” The territories of the northern and of the southern division of Alexander’s dominion remain respectively the kingdoms of the north and the south unto the end, and from beginning to end, whatever powers might occupy these respective territories, would be the kings of the north and of the south. The power therefore which, at the time of the end, occupies the territory of Thrace and Bithynia, originally held by Lysimachus, will be the king of the north as certainly as was the power of Lysimachus itself. And as Constantinople is the center of the territory originally held by Lysimachus, the first “king of the north,” and as the power (Turkey) that now reigns in Constantinople holds the identical territory held by Lysimachus himself, it is plain enough that this power is “the king of the north” of the last verses of the eleventh chapter of Daniel, and of our own day. EQ 11.1