{"id":2546,"date":"2009-10-05T05:22:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2009-09-28T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T19:34:33","slug":"russia-is-not-the-king-of-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/russia-is-not-the-king-of-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is Not the King of the North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/HolyRomanEmpCrown.jpg\" alt=\"Crown of the Beast of Revelation?\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Crown of Charlemagne<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some religious writers claim that Russia is the prophesied final &#8220;King of the North&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They tend to base this upon the fact that Russia is a major military power and is located in the north.<\/p>\n<p>And while that would seem to make some sense at first glance, this conclusion overlooks at least one very important point.<\/p>\n<p>And that is that according to the 11th chapter of the Book of Daniel (which is the only place where the term &#8220;king of the north&#8221; is used in the Bible), the King of the North is disturbed by powers from the north and the east.<\/p>\n<p>Notice the following verse where the &#8220;him&#8221; is the King of the North:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>44 But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many (Daniel 11:44).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As there would be no power north of the Russia at that time, it would seem likely that Russia would not be the final King of the North.<\/p>\n<p>However, since Russia is north (and east) of Europe, it would seem to make a lot more sense that a European power would be the final king of the north.<\/p>\n<p>Some articles of related interest may include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/russia_in_prophecy.htm\">Russia: Its Origins and Prophesied Future<\/a> Where do the Russians come from? What is prophesied for Russia? What will it do to the Europeans that supported the Beast in the end?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/is-russia-the-king-of-the-north.htm\">Is Russia the King of the North?<\/a> Some claim it is. But what does the Bible teach?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/kingofthenorth.htm\">Who is the King of the North?<\/a> Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of<span> the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand<\/span>? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown of Charlemagne COGwriter Some religious writers claim that Russia is the prophesied final &#8220;King of the North&#8221;. They tend to base this upon the fact that Russia is a major military power and is located in the north. And while that would seem to make some sense at first glance, this conclusion overlooks at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}