284    The Bible and the Future of the World 

with chariots, and with horsemen, and with a great fleet, and he will enter 

into the lands, and will crush and pass through. 

{11:41} And he will enter into the glorious land, and many will fall. But 

only these will be saved from his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the first part 

of the sons of Ammon. 

{11:42} And he will cast his hand upon the lands, and the land of Egypt will 

not escape. 

{11:43} And he will rule over the treasure chests of gold, and silver, and all 

the precious things of Egypt, and likewise he will pass through Libya and 

Ethiopia. 

The king of the North, here, is the Antichrist. The North (Europe) and 

South (Middle East) kingdoms continue to be at war, just as before the 

Antichrist came to power. The Antichrist again defeats the South, retaining 

his power over all ten of the kingdoms of the world. He even captures the 

holy land of Israel. Though he rules over the whole world, there are always 

those who try to rebel against him, so that his hold on the whole world is 

never complete and his kingdom is never at peace. Even some parts of the 

world are unable to be dominated by him. Egypt and Libya and Ethiopia are 

here used both literally and metaphorically. Gold and silver represent not 

only wealth, but resources such as technology and weaponry. 

{11:44} And rumors from the East and from the North will trouble him. 

And he will arrive with a great multitude to destroy and to execute many. 

Again, the Antichrist faces constant rebellions, even in the kingdom of the 

North, where his rule began. He has the military power to defeat and 

execute rebels, but he never succeeds in ruling over a peaceful, orderly, and 

obedient kingdom. 

{11:45} And he will fasten his tabernacle, Apadno, between the seas, upon 

an illustrious and holy mountain, and he will come even to its summit, and 

no one will help him.  

The Antichrist  wants to be worshiped as if he were a god. He even has a 

tabernacle or place for himself to reside and to be worshiped. The seas may, 

of course, refer to seas or oceans; or, it may refer to the waters above the 

heavens and to those below (cf. Gen 1:1 8). In the second case, the 

Antichrist's tabernacle would be fixed in the sky (through the use of some 

type of advanced technology). His ascent to the summit of the mountain 

may refer to his attempt to perversely imitate the Ascension of Christ. He 

ascends up into the sky, perhaps with the help of devils, thinking that he