THE KING OF NORTH AND THE KING OF SOUTH (Part 4)
THE PAX ROMANA
“And there will stand up in his position one who causes an exactor to pass through the splendid kingdom, but in a few days he will be broken, though not in anger nor in warfare.
“And there will stand up in his position a despised one, and they will not give him the majesty of the kingdom; and he will come in during a time of security and take hold of the kingdom by means of smoothness. And the arms of the flood will be swept away on account of him, and they will be broken; as will be the Leader of the covenant. And because of their alliance with him, he will carry on deception and rise up and become mighty by means of a little nation. During a time of security he will come into the richest parts of the province and do what his fathers and their fathers have not done. Plunder and spoil and goods he will distribute among them; and against fortified places he will plot his schemes, but only for a time” (Daniel 11:20–24).
It is a break with the beginning of the story of this prophetic saga, and until the verse 24, it is not mentioned the King of the North, and the King of the South, as if it would be a transitional period of the world history, in the context of the conflict between these two Kings or this bipolar worldwide conflict. This is a transitory period for three reasons:
The first reason is that Roman Empire becomes the official worldwide (Iron) Power, replacing the Greek Worldwide (Copper) Power. Now, the future King of the North and the King of the South would be in the new historical context of the Worldwide Roman domination, until the End (Daniel 12:1).
The second reason is that, in the beginning, the Roman Empire dominates both in the territory of the origin King of North, Syria, and the origin King of the South, Egypt and also in the Land of Decoration.
The third reason, this period is called the “Pax Romana”, “During a time of security” (Daniel 11:24a).
However, this period of “Pax Romana”, was “relative peace” because “Rome always engaged battle against the peoples and the tribes in the periphery, including the Germanic and Parthian peoples”. This information, especially regarding the conflict with the “Germanic peoples”, is important because it allows to understand the beginning of the open conflict between the two future kings, in the framework of this Roman Empire territory.
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