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opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing in front
of me, “I am filled with anguish because of the vision I have seen, my lord,
and I am very weak. How can someone like me, your servant, talk to you,
my lord? My strength is gone, and I can hardly breathe.”
Then the one who looked like a man touched me again, and I felt my
strength returning. “Don’t be afraid,” he said, “for you are very precious to
God. Peace! Be encouraged! Be strong!”
As he spoke these words to me, I suddenly felt stronger and said to him,
“Please speak to me, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”
He replied, “Do you know why I have come? Soon I must return to fight
against the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia, and after that the spirit
prince of the kingdom of Greece will come. Meanwhile, I will tell you
what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one helps me against these spirit
princes except Michael, your spirit prince. I have been standing beside
Michael to support and strengthen him since the first year of the reign of
Darius the Mede.)
“Now then, I will reveal the truth to you. Three more Persian kings will
reign, to be succeeded by a fourth, far richer than the others. He will use
his wealth to stir up everyone to fight against the kingdom of Greece.
“Then a mighty king will rise to power who will rule with great authority
and accomplish everything he sets out to do. But at the height of his power,
his kingdom will be broken apart and divided into four parts. It will not be
ruled by the king’s descendants, nor will the kingdom hold the authority it
once had. For his empire will be uprooted and given to others.
“The king of the south will increase in power, but one of his own officials will become more powerful than he and will rule his kingdom with
great strength.
“Some years later an alliance will be formed between the king of the
north and the king of the south. The daughter of the king of the south
will be given in marriage to the king of the north to secure the alliance,
but she will lose her influence over him, and so will her father. She will
be abandoned along with her supporters. But when one of her relatives
becomes king of the south, he will raise an army and enter the fortress of
the king of the north and defeat him. When he returns to Egypt, he will
carry back their idols with him, along with priceless articles of gold and
silver. For some years afterward he will leave the king of the north alone.
“Later the king of the north will invade the realm of the king of the south
but will soon return to his own land. However, the sons of the king of the
north will assemble a mighty army that will advance like a flood and carry
the battle as far as the enemy’s fortress.
“Then, in a rage, the king of the south will rally against the vast forces
assembled by the king of the north and will defeat them. After the enemy
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