Page 5 - 11 A Literal Prophecy

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
VERSE 3. And a mighty king shall stand up,

that shall rule with great dominion, and do

according to his will. 4. And when he shall

stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and

shall be divided toward the four winds of

heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according

to his dominion which he ruled: for his

kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others

beside those.

The facts stated in these verses plainly point

to Alexander, and the division of his empire.

(See on chapter 8:8.) Xerxes was the last

Persian king who invaded Grecia; and the

prophecy therefore passes over the nine

successors of Xerxes in the Persian empire,

and next introduces Alexander the Great.

Having overthrown the Persian empire,

Alexander “became absolute monarch of that