Though Daniel 11:1-35 reveals intense earthly conflict and the persecution of the faithful under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the vision does not stop there. It shifts into a broader and more ominous portrait, one that transcends the historical and reaches toward the eschatological. A new figure emerges, one who defies every god and exalts himself with blasphemous arrogance. The vision now exposes the schemes of the serpent in Daniel 11:36-45.
