This mighty one revealed to Daniel that "the prince of the kingdom of Persia

withstood him twenty-one days". It is at once obvious, that this would have been no

ordinary prince of flesh and blood, for if Daniel, the beloved servant of the Lord,

collapsed in his presence, surely the earthly prince of Persia would no less have done so.

Not until Michael, one of the chief princes, came to his help, could this mighty one

accomplish his mission and reveal the truth to Daniel.

Here, then, the veil is lifted for a moment. We see that there are not only kings and

princes upon earth, but that there are satanic representatives at the courts of kings, ever

seeking to frustrate the purpose of God. Michael, the Archangel, is said to be "your

prince" (Dan. 10: 21), and "the great prince that standeth for the children of thy people"

(Dan. 12: 1). With the light of this revelation we can see that the prince and the king of

Tyre of Ezek. 28: are more than men.

The heavenly messenger explains the prophetic character of Dan. 11: and 12: by

Here is very clear testimony. The events befall Daniel's "people"--Israel. The period

is "the latter times".  And the revelation of Dan. 11: and 12: supplements that of

Dan. 9:, explaining with more detail "the one week", when the covenant made shall be

broken "in the midst of the week", and a vivid light is thus thrown upon the blasphemous

character of "the desolator".

A remarkable statement is made in Dan. 10: 21:--

First, the Hebrew word rasham, "noted", is exactly equivalent to the Chaldee resham

of Dan. 5: 24, 25; 6: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, where five of the references deal with the signing

of a royal decree, and two with words of doom written on the wall in Belshazzar's palace.

Secondly, to what did the angel refer when he spoke of the "scripture of truth"?

Taken out of their context we might be excused for saying that the words referred to the

writings of the O.T.; but, inasmuch as the revelation given to Daniel, and recorded by

him, is unknown to the rest of the O.T., the question remains--To what scripture did the

angel refer? Seeing that the earthly tabernacle was made after the pattern of the heavenly

reality, may we not ask whether there is any reasonable objection to the suggestion that

our Scriptures are an earthly shadow of a complete record accessible to the heavenly host,

and which, as Psa. 119: 89 declares, is "for ever settled in heaven"? It must be kept in

mind that there are many features that are not the subject of revelation in the Scriptures,

which nevertheless form a part of the great purpose of the ages. For example, Gen. 3: 1

reveals the presence and the character of the Serpent, which later revelation declares to be

Satan, but Gen. 1:-3: makes no attempt to explain how such a being could be found in