Daniel 11:1-4

In the end times even the elect can be fooled. Please Holy Spirit direct and guide your church into God’s will. He will use whomever He chooses to accomplish His purposes. 

SOMETIMES LESSONS ARE HARD LEARNED.

Let Your will Father rule on earth as it does in heaven.

he will do as he pleases… Refers to unstoppable power. Alexander, Antiochus III the Great, and Antiochus share this trait.

All of these events were experienced by the Jewish people after Daniel’s lifetime. Faithlife Bible.

At the beginning of the Persian administration, the divine messenger stood up to confirm and strengthen Darius. This suggests that though the kingdoms of the world are under demonic control, their human rulers can be delivered from that control and used for a higher purpose by God as He sees fit.

Darius (under Cyrus) was followed by Cambyses (530–522 b.c.); Gaumata (522 b.c.); Darius I (522–486 b.c.); and Xerxes (486–465 b.c.), who was the richest king of all due to his conquest and severe taxation. The kingdom of Alexander was divided into four parts (8:22), but not among his posterity—that is, his heirs… his generals ruled the empire he had conquered. NKJ Bible.

Daniel 11:1–4 (NKJV)

11 “Also in the first year of Darius the Mede, I, even I, stood up to confirm and strengthen him.) ² And now I will tell you the truth: Behold, three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than them all; by his strength, through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. ³ Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. ⁴ And when he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not among his posterity nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be uprooted, even for others besides these.