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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
embassadors at Constantinople, and
exasperated that Egypt, so long a semi-
dependency of the Ottoman empire, should be
transformed into a French province, declared
war against France. Thus the king of the north
(Turkey) came against him (France) in the
same year that the king of the south (Egypt)
“pushed,” and both “at the time of the end;”
which is another conclusive proof that the
year 1798 is the year which begins that
period; and all of which is a demonstration
that this application of the prophecy is
correct; for so many events meeting so
accurately the specifications of the prophecy
could not take place together, and not be a
fulfillment of the prophecy.
Was the coming of the king of the north, or
Turkey, like the whirlwind in comparison