Because some of my smart aleck brethren, come round to talk to me, about him being the king of the north, and then some other character, comes about him being the king of the south, and you'd think they couldn't read, because the character that we're looking at, at the time of the end, both north and south are going to come against him, and I'll show you a thing in a moment, not only north and south, but east, but never west, because he must be getting his power from the west, you see, at the time of the end, shall the king of the south push at him, and the king of the north shall come against him, like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, with many ships, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over, he shall enter also into the glorious land, and there's no doubts about that, it is Palestine, and it says, verse 42, he shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape, but he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his step, because you see, he's not only vile, and subtle, and deceitful, and powerful, and wicked, and willful, and selfish, and fearless, because he regards neither God nor Christ, and diabolical, you'll find he's hated both by north and south, and east, and I want you to get the hold of it, that he's very rich, he shall have power over the treasures of gold, silver, usually when you have the command of the treasury, you can do a lot, you know, see verse 44, but tidings out of the east, this is another point of the compass, isn't it, north and south will come against him, and east, tidings out of the east, and out of the north shall trouble him, I'm only going down the chapter in a sort of loose way, you know, I want you to get the great set, that in the first 20 verses, we've got a dozen or more personalities, and in the next 25 we've only got one, that's outstanding, I know others have to be named because they fight with him, but we're looking at one personality, and you'll find he's vile, you'll find he's subtle, you will find that he's deceitful, find he's powerful, find that he's wicked, he hates the covenant, he hates the sanctuary, he's going to bring this abomination that maketh desolate into the sanctuary, you'll find that he's a willful person, he'll do according to his will, you'll find that he's selfish, he shall exhort himself, you'll find that he's fearless, neither he regards the God of his father, nor the desire of woman, not any God for that matter, you'll find that he's diabolical, you'll find that he's hated, you'll find that he's rich, you'll find that he's being troubled, at the end of the day, the last verse says, and he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace, between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain, that's geographically described for us you see, because the Mediterranean Sea lies out there, and the Sea of Galilee just lies a little bit north, and the Dead Sea, and it's in between the seas, in the holy mountain, that's exactly, where the temple will be built, and he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace, between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain, yet he shall come to his end, and that was very carefully put in, because it doesn't say he's going to die, because I'll tell you this, he doesn't die, that's a bittersweet, he's just belifted, and cast into the lake of fire without dying, he doesn't die, now you can see that the chapter does really divide in two, I think if you're being honest, in the first 20 verses, you get all these personalities, and they bring off right down the history page, from Babylon, right down through Medo -Persia, right down through the great Grecian Empire, right down through the time when the four generals took over Alexander's world empire, right down to the time when Rome took over, and when our Lord Jesus Christ was born, when we begin the Gospels, you know it is Rome that is in power, and the last 25 verses deal with this caricature, and is staring at us out of the page here this evening, and what a picture it is.