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THE COVENANT WITH DEATH

Part VI

In our last installment of The Covenant With Death, we rather unexpectedly realized there was a connection between European political history in the AD Christian age, and a difficult to understand text in Daniel, dealing with the daughter of the King of the South, in Daniel 11.

This princess from the kingdom in the South, was given in marriage to the king of the North, as a political move to cement relations between the two dominions.

 "And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengtheneth her in these times" (Daniel 11:6).

This "Sequential Recapitulation" closely matched King Ferdinand II of 16^th century Spain, when he betrothed his daughter Catherine of Aragon to Henry VIII, the King of the North. This was clearly a politically motivated marriage, as Spain was at the time, looking to increase their pre-eminence against their Catholic rival France.

Having pondered Daniel 11 for about 30 years, this realization was the latest in a lifelong series of studies which began long ago. Many of the Christian Medians are aware of earlier prophecy work, in which I broadcast what understanding I had gleaned at the time in Daniel's enigmatic 11^th chapter.

One of the two longest chapters in Daniel, this mysterious Scripture has an elaborate narrative which is clearly multi-generational, as there is a verse that says "the sons" of one of the kings mentioned in the lengthy series are "stirred up to "assemble a multitude of great forces" (Daniel 11:10).

Another section, dealing with the daughter of the "king of the South" (the one who was given in a politically arranged marriage), also speaks of a considerable amount of time elapsing as "out of a branch of her roots shall one…come with an army" (Daniel 11:7) to continue the many conflicts leading up to "the time of the end" (Daniel 12:4).

Over 20 years ago, in May 2002 when I was still doing the Apocalypse Chronicles broadcast on radio, I recorded a prophecy series based on the 11^th chapter of Daniel. In that broadcast, I told how the Lord had revealed what I then termed "Twin Timelines," and how various sequences were "recapitulated" in history! This was related to written research dating back to the 1990's, so I have long determined that the final two chapters of Daniel deal with the end of Israel in the Old Covenant, as well as the Sequential Recapitulation of that epic timeline in the fate of the body of Christ – Spiritual Israel – in our time.

At that stage of our understanding, I realized that there were multiple examples of the "Script" in Daniel 11, and there were sequential sequences that were repeated so many times in history that while a single verse in Scripture could specifically apply to one timeline, the next verse could abruptly jump to a different timeline – but it would be in the same sequential sequence that followed the prior verse!

To put it another way, if we view the verses as applying to the spiritual entities behind the earthly vessels (the "princes" in Daniel 10), each verse can jump back and forth between different timelines, yet the chronological sequence of events remains consistent. Moreover, since this narrative was presented to Daniel by an angelic Spiritual being, the angel would perceive the sequence of the "Script" across multiple timelines!

In that study tracing back to the 1990's, I spoke of a particular episode, drawn from ancient historical writings, which described the daughter of one of the Ptolemaic/Egyptian kings (the king of the South), a princess named Berenice, who was given to the Graeco/Syrian king (the king of the North) of the Seleucid dynasty.

Not only that, but the Seleucid king of the North, Antiochus II, discarded his then wife Laodice, in order to consummate the arrangement with the "daughter of the king of the South!" This occurred in the third century BC,  hundreds of years after it was predicted in the book of Daniel.

As the "king of the North," Antiochus II succeeded his father in 261 BC, and thus began a new war between Syria and Egypt,

"The war was concluded around 253 BC with the marriage of Antiochus to Ptolemy's daughter, Berenice Syra. Antiochus repudiated his previous wife, Laodice…for unknown reasons, around 253, Antiochus dismissed his first queen, Laodice, and married Ptolemy's daughter Berenice." (britannica.com/biography/Berenice-daughter-of-Ptolemy-II).

For those who know their history, this is precisely what happened to Catharine of Aragon about 1,700 years later! This information, clearly a fulfillment of a part of Daniel's prophecy in Chapter 11, has been known for many years. What has not been known is how this episode is Sequentially Recapitulated ("doubled") in the AD Christian timeline, as the earthly vessels in the Christian age repeated that which occurred in the BC timeline.

The episode surrounding the effort of Henry VIII of England to have his 20 plus year marriage to the Spanish princess Catharine of Aragon ("the daughter of the king of the South" – Daniel 11:6) "annulled" by the Pope has been memorialized in literature, books, plays, motion pictures, and television programs.

And there is more. Because we connect this episode with the subsequent attack on England by the later Spanish King Phillip II in the celebrated naval battle in which the vaunted Spanish Armada was defeated, we look again at the BC era episode.

"[Antiochus II-the king of the North] reached an agreement with the current Antigonid king in Macedon, Antigonus II Gonatas, who was also interested in pushing Ptolemy II [the king of the South] out of the Aegean [Sea]. With Macedon's support, Antiochus II launched an attack on Ptolemaic outposts in Asia. Most of the information about the Second Syrian War has been lost. It is clear that Antigonus' fleet defeated Ptolemy's at the Battle of Cos in 261 BC, diminishing Ptolemaic naval power" (ibid).

This is simply astounding, for we would not have noticed the maritime component in the BC era prophetic fulfillment until we became aware of the AD Sequential Recapitulation, in which the British navy surprisingly routed the much larger Spanish armada.

To date, we have concluded there are at least three timelines of six stages each, which are then impacted by the seventh stage which is clearly a change in the Spiritual power driving that particular timeline.

The prophet Ezekiel glimpsed this "seventh" stage – which is always a reversal -- as he articulated the word of the LORD.

"Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown…I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him" (Ezekiel 21:27).

The realization that European history, in the episode where Catholic Spain moved to strengthen ties with England to preserve their position through an arranged marriage, was decidedly surprising as it followed another revelation, less than two weeks before. Please allow me to explain.

For many years, most Christian scholars have been aware that Daniel's 8^th chapter, in which the "great horn" (which was obviously Alexander the Great) of Greece was "broken" (and four "horns" came up in his place), inaugurating the lengthy series of the Seleucid/Ptolemaic wars.  

"The great horn…is the first king [of Greece]. Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power" (Daniel 8:21,22).

Multiple wars ensued between the Northern general – Seleucus – and the Southern general – Ptolemy – who declared themselves kings of the areas they controlled. All of this occurred in the BC time period, after the Grecian Empire of Alexander, but before the Roman Empire came to pre-eminence.

The Lord revealed long ago that the four empires in the BC timeline – Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome – were doubled in the AD Christian era timeline with England, Russia, Germany, and America, as seen in Daniel 2 and 7.

The German era had Adolph Hitler doubling Alexander, and when the Nazis were defeated, the four generals that were known as the Allies of World War II occupied Nazi Germany, dividing the nation into in four territorial zones. The Allied powers were Russia, England, France, and America.

Russia's zone was in the North, and America was based in the Southern quadrant. The four zones were headquartered in Berlin, and shortly thereafter, the Cold War – where Russia and America were openly hostile to each other commenced. During the cold war, multiple surrogate conflicts erupted (Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, Angola, Grenada, etc), Prophetically Paralleling the six wars between the Syrian Seleucids and the Egyptian Ptolemies!

We know from the relatively recent history of the 20^th century that the Soviet Union (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was in competition with the USA in an arms race, as both sought to dominate the entire world. The extensive financial expenditures for arms in Russia caused the USSR to collapse economically. This left America, and the nations allied with America, as the world's sole surviving superpower.

"And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion" (Daniel 11:5).

It is also clear that the American generated New World Order is deeply involved as an earthly vessel of the Spiritual powers – labeled as "princes" in Daniel -- that spiritually influences the prophecies. These are doubled in the AD Christian era, and this is particularly relevant as the last of the four devilish fallen spirits seen in Daniel 7 is the Prince of America.

In Part IV of the present work, we established that the territorially denominated "princes" referred to in Daniel 10 (the "prince" of Persia, the "prince" of Greece, etc) were angelic entities, and this explained why the four kingdoms in the BC era in Daniel 2 (Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome) Prophetically Paralleled the four AD Christian era kingdoms in Daniel 7 (the "lion" kingdom of Britain, the "bear" kingdom of Russia, the "leopard" kingdom of Nazi Germany, and the "Diverse" empire of America).

As we have repeatedly asserted, since angels are spiritual beings, they don't die when their dynastic earthly vessels are succeeded (or conquered) by subsequent political regimes. Furthermore, since the fallen angels (the "principalities and powers" -- Colossians 2:15) are motivated by sinful attributes such as self interest, ambition, the lust for power, cruelty, and more), they are divided against themselves.

"If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand" (Mark 3:25).   

Furthermore, since Satan ("the prince of this world" – John 12:31) was restrained during the AD Christian era, it is feasible that the Angelic Rebel Coalition (ARC) that followed the dragon when he fell from glory, still had access to the national earthly kingdoms during the Christian age.

"Behold a great red dragon…and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth" (Revelation 12:3,4). 

While this might be confusing from an earthly historical perspective, it explains how from a heavenly viewpoint, (where time does not exist), the earthly chronological steps are the same since they are an outgrowth of the Spiritual principalities and powers.

Perhaps the most important takeaway from this revelation is the fact that through the understanding of the Sequential Recapitulation phenomenon, it is clear the body of Christ Spiritually Doubles the path of BC era Physical Israel. 

But a further analysis of America, and the iniquitous path that we are on since Satan was "loosed out of his prison" (Revelation 20:7), will have to wait for another chapter of The Covenant With Death.

- James Lloyd

To Be Continued