Who Is "the King of the North" Today? - WHAT WILL THE KING OF THE NORTH DO IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

 A prophecy recorded by Ezekiel gives some insight into what may happen during the last days of the king of the north and the king of the south. If we view the prophecies of Ezekiel38:10-33; Daniel 2:43-45; 11:44-12:1; and Revelation 16:13-16, 21)  as speaking about the same time period and events. It appears that we can expect the following developments.

Sometime after the start of the great tribulation, "the kings of  the entire inhabited earth" will form a coalition of nations.  (Revelation16:13, 14; 19:19) That coalition becomes what the Scriptures call "Gog of the land of Magog." (Ezekiel 38:21) That coalition of nations will make one final all-out assault on God's people. What will provoke the attack? Speaking of this time, the apostle John saw a storm of unusually large hailstones raining down on God's enemies. The symbolic hailstorm may take the form of a hard-hitting judgment message delivered by Jehovah's people. It could be that this message provokes  Gog of Magog into attacking God's people with the intention of wiping them off  the earth. - REVELATION 16:21.

This hard-hitting message and the final attack by God's enemies may be the same events referred to at Daniel 11:44, 45. (Read) There, Daniel says that "reports out of the east and out of the north" disturb the king of the north, who goes off in "a great rage." The king of the north intends "to devote many to destruction."  The "many" referred to seem to be the Jehovah's people.  Daniel may here be describing the final all-out  assault on God's people.

This attack by the king of the north, acting along with the rest of the world's governments provokes the Almighty and brings on the war of Armageddon.  (Revelation 16:14, 16) At that time, the king of the north, along with rest of the nations that make up Gog of the Magog, comes to his end, and there will be "no helper for him." - DANIEL 11:45.

The very next verse in Daniel's account gives more details about how the king of the north and his allies will come to their end and how we will be saved. (Daniel 12:1.) What does this verse mean? Michael is another name for our ruling King, Christ Jesus. He has been "standing in behalf" of God's people since 1914. when his Kingdom was established in the heavens. In the near future, he will "stand up," or take significant action, at the war of Armageddon. That battle will be the final event in what Daniel calls the greatest "time of distress" in history.  John's prophecy recorded in Revelation refers to the time leading up to this battle as "the great tribulation." - REVELATION 6:2; 7:14. 

Next time: Who Is "the King of the North" Today? - WILL YOUR NAME BE WRITTEN DOWN IN THE BOOK"? 

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