The King of the North

Not like any nation

(Da 7:24) And still another one will rise up after them, and he will be different from the first ones, and he will humiliate three kings.

Every kingdom Daniel saw had borders, an army and rulers who rose and fell. The little horn rises among them and is described as unlike any of them, and that one word rules out Russia, Britain, Germany and every other nation-state anyone has proposed. Something categorically different from a nation has no borders of its own. You can't vote it out or invade it, and it moves across nations and uses them as tools. Daniel confirms the method: "His power will become great, but not through his own power" (Daniel 8:24), and he adds that the king succeeds by cunning and deception (Daniel 8:25).

The same power under four names

Daniel 7 calls it the little horn. Daniel 11 calls it the king of the north, who "will plant his palatial tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain" (Daniel 11:45), and he does it by maneuver rather than conquest. Ezekiel 38 calls it Gog, whose coalition includes "the house of Togarmah from the far north" (Ezekiel 38:6), the brother house of Ashkenaz (Genesis 10:3). Revelation 17 calls it the scarlet beast carrying the harlot. That's four prophets writing six centuries apart, and one structure.

Who the king of the north is

The study on this site identifies the king of the north as the Zionist transnational network, and it was built in three stages. Freemasonry came first, and the French Revolution brought it into the open. Then came Rothschild capital, which took the debt of Britain at Waterloo and the money supply of America in 1913. Last came political Zionism, which turned two world wars into the League of Nations, the United Nations and the state declared on May 14, 1948. Daniel says the horn would "intend to change times and law" and harass the holy ones (Daniel 7:25), and the Revolution's dechristianization and new calendar were its first move.

What comes next for him

In Daniel 11 the ships of Kittim, western powers, turn him back and frustrate him without conquering him, and he turns his rage on the holy covenant (Daniel 11:29, 30). He honors a god of fortresses his fathers never knew (Daniel 11:38). Then he comes to his end with no one to help him (Daniel 11:45), and the very next verse is Michael standing up and a time of distress unlike any before (Daniel 12:1). And getting his identity right is how you know where we are on the timeline.