Unholy War
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Who is the King of the South in Daniel 11:40? This book supports the views of Uriah Smith found in his book Daniel and the Revelation.
John C. Witcombe
John Witcombe, an avid student of history and Bible prophecy, discovered a forgotten prophetic view of Islam in a 19th-century book entitled Daniel and the Revelation—a view that has significant relevance for those of us living in the 21st century. “Hidden in plain sight” in the 11th chapter of Old Testament Daniel, the author is convinced that Islam’s present and future role is there clearly revealed. Witcombe is a pastor who has worked in Ireland and in the Pacific Northwest. He and his wife, Sharon, are now experiencing the joys of being grandparents.
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Unholy War - John C. Witcombe
Unholy War
...and the King of the South is...
JOHN C. WITCOMBE
GRANTS PASS, OREGON
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Unholy War? It’s Not What You Think!
Appendix A: . . . and the King of the South is . . .
Appendix B: Ellen White’s Daniel 11 Statement
Appendix C: History of Daniel 11:40-45 in Adventism
Appendix D: United in Spirit and in Truth
Appendix E: Smith and White United on the King of the South
Appendix F: The Loud Voice of the Three Woes
Appendix G: Ellen White’s Position on Daniel 11:40-45
Back Cover
Unholy War?
It’s Not What You Think!
I FIGURED THE TITLE of this booklet might pique your curiosity! You’d like to know what this Unholy War
is all about. Well, it’s not about the Middle East conflict. It’s about the war of conflicting ideas within God’s Church. From women’s ordination, Creation, or Revelation’s trumpets, to the identity of the kings of Daniel 11—the war goes on. And when war is within the Church, it’s unholy—because God wants us all to speak the same thing:
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.—1 Corinthians 1:10.
This booklet is going to only address one small battle—the identity of the king of the south in Daniel 11:40. If harmony can be achieved on this front, it will give us warriors courage to believe that unity in God’s Church can be achieved on all fronts.
The prophecy of Daniel 11:40-45 speaks of events that will occur at the time of the end. Verse 45 is a prophecy connected closely with the close of probation, thus it relates to the Second Coming of Jesus—one of the 28 fundamental beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Fundamental Belief #25, on the Second Coming of Christ, states:
The almost complete fulfillment of most lines of prophecy, together with the present condition of the world, indicates that Christ’s coming is imminent.
—25th Fundamental Belief.
Speaking of the almost complete fulfillment
of one significant line of prophecy, Ellen White penned the following words:
The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecy of the eleventh chapter of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment. Soon the scenes of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place.—Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 14, emphasis supplied.
Notice the prominence of this 25th fundamental belief—a belief that is closely connected to Daniel 11:45:
The doctrine of the Second Advent is the very keynote of the Sacred Scriptures.—The Great Controversy, p. 299.
The return of Jesus Christ to our world will not be long delayed. This is to be the keynote of every message.—Letter 39, 1898.
To present the keynote of Scripture apart from the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation is not possible. And to believe that God would have every messenger giving this keynote be in tune with every other messenger is only reasonable. The discordant notes currently being played amount to an unholy war that needs to come to an end so that we can all be in one accord—ready for the outpouring of the latter rain.
What follows in this small booklet is an attempt to lay out a clear path to unity and an invitation for all to press together, press together, press together.
—Review and Herald, September 12, 1893.
At a Daniel 11 Prophecy Symposium held in 2011—and at each of three following Prophecy Symposiums sponsored by one of our unions in the North American Division—an effort was made toward finding unity between three divergent views of Daniel 11:40-45.
King of the South: The Key to Unlocking Daniel 11
Why are there significant differences of interpretation on this important prophecy of Daniel 11? I would suggest that it all comes down to how we interpret the phrase, king of the south in verse 40.
The first presenter at our Prophecy Symposium in 2011 provided a figurative (symbolic) interpretation of this phrase, teaching that the king of the south is a figure for atheism.
The second presenter also gave a figurative interpretation of this phrase, teaching that it is a figure for Islam.
The third presenter (yours truly) took Uriah Smith’s position. In his book, Daniel and the Revelation, Smith takes this phrase, king of the south, as it reads
and explains it according to its obvious meaning,
giving a literal interpretation, teaching that