Dear John & Doves,
 
  I would be the last person that would want to lead anyway astray by interpretting the book of Daniel incorrectly.  However, if the king of the north in Daniel 11:40-45 is actually the Beast-Antichrist, doesn't it then make more sense that in verse 40 he is coming against the king of the south who pushed against him rather than the 2 other kings of the north located in Syria & Iraq coming against the king of the north in Lebanon (the Beast-Antichrist) which was my previous explanation in my recent post at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/mar2005/donnad33-1.htm which was based on the fact that the king of the north (Antiochus III) at one time controlled Lebanon, Syria, & Iraq.
 
  First of all, if you read Daniel 11:36-39, it shows a King who exalts himself and magnifies himself above every god which sounds like the Antichrist Beast.  He also honors the god of forces and regards not the God of his fathers.  Then in verses 40-45 we read the following, and see if what I have written inside of  parentheses in blue font makes sense to you.
 
  Daniel 11:40 "And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him (king of north, the Beast-Antichrist?): and the king of the north (the Beast-Antichrist?) shall come against him (king of the south) like a whirlwind with chariots, and with horesemen, and with many ships; and he (king of the north, The Beast-Antichrist?) shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. 41 He (king of the north, the Beast-Antichrist?) shall enter into the glorious land (Israel), and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even E-dom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 42 He (king of the north, the Beast-Antichrist?) shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 But he (king of the north, the Beast-Antichrist?) shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.  But tidings out of the east (Persia in Ezekiel 38:5? and/or the kings of the east in the Far East in Rev. 16:12?) and out of the north (Gog, the land of Magog in Ezekiel 38:2?) shall trouble him (king of the north, the Beast-Antichrist?): therefore he (king of the north, the Beast-Antichrist?) shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly sway many. 45 And he (king of the north, the Beast-Antichrist?) shall plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain (Jerusalem according to Isaiah 66:20); yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him."  Daniel 12:1 "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of the people: and there shall be a time of trouble (Matthew 24:21-22), such as never was since there was a nation even to the same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."
 
  According to Revelation 11:2, the gentiles will tread the holy city of Jerusalem underfoot for forty-two months so it looks like the Beast-Antichrist would have Israel under his control just like king of the north, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, of the Seleucid Kingdom did who sacrificied the unclean pig on the altar in the temple in Jerusalem.  Israel (then known as Palestine) and Lebanon had come under the control of his father Antiochus III in 200 B.C. when he won it in the Ptolemaic Wars from Egypt according to this Map 90 of the Seleucid Kingdom under Antiochus III at http://www.studylight.org/se/maps/browse.cgi?st=120#090  Previously Israel & Lebanon including its cities of Tyre & Tripolis (Tripoli) had been under the control of Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy according to this map showing the division of Alexander the Great's Grecian Empire at http://www.studylight.org/se/maps/browse.cgi?st=120#088 and map 89: Palestine Under the Ptolemies at http://www.studylight.org/se/maps/browse.cgi?st=120#089  shows Israel and the cities of Tyre & Sidon in Lebanon under the control of the Ptolemaic Kingdom until the king of the north of the Seleucid Kingdom, Antiochus III, later took control of them.  So if the Beast-Antichrist as king of the north has control of Lebanon & Israel which were areas of land that Antiochus III, king of the north controlled in the Seleucid Kingdom, Biblical history would be repeating itself all over again.
 
   God bless you,
 
  Donna