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The King of the North II
Dan 11: 40-44
 
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. Dan 11:40

In 1062,  another power "overflowed"  the Euphrates  and  established

itself  in Syria  where  the Selucid Empire  had  reigned  as  King of the

North. In  a  prophetic 391 years  they  besieged   Constantinople and

destroyed Byzantium.


 

He Shall Enter the Glorious Land

Egypt Shall Not Escape

 

 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. Dan 11: 41-43

 

One  of  the  first  conquests  of the  Seljun Turks  was  Palestine, the

"Glorious Land".   The Ottoman  Turks  conquered  Palestine  again and

held it from 1517 until 1917.

 

The territories  of Edom,  Moab  and Ammon  were never conquered by 

the Turks due first to their inland  and  defensible  position and second 

due to their being themselves, Mohammedans.

  

The Ottomans  conquered   Egypt  in  1517.  A thousand camels laden

with  gold and  silver  carried  the wealth  of Egypt  to Constantinople.

Libya and Ethiopia were conquered in 1550.

 

The  Turks  continued   to  push  against  Western Christendom   until

1683  when  their second attempt  to  besiege Vienna  failed. In 1699, 

they were forced  to cede  large amounts of re-conquered territory to

the West.  The   momentum  shifted  to the  West  at  this  time,  the 

Eupratean flood would now recede.

 


Troublous Tidings From the Northeast
Russia Pushes Down On the Weakening Empire

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. Dan 11: 44

In the  late 18th century,  Catherine  the Great  of  Russia  turned her 

eyes south toward  the  Turkish Empire.  She  became  obsessed with

grandiose dreams of a Russian Constantinople.

 

Her   open  plans  to  dismember  the   Turkish  Empire  "troubled"  the

Turkish  sultan  and  he  declared war.  The  outcome was  a crushing 

victory  for  the Russians  which  gave  them  control of  the northern

shores of  the  Black Sea.   For the first  time  in  history  they  had a

direct southern access to Mediterranean Sea.