Daniel 11:13
“The king of the north will return, and will send out a multitude greater than the former. He will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance.”
What does Daniel 11:13 mean?
This verse describes the king of the north gathering an even larger force to attack again after an earlier defeat. The "end of the times" language suggests a final, decisive confrontation is coming, when he'll mobilize his full resources for what he intends to be an overwhelming assault. Scholars generally read Daniel 11 as referring to the struggles between the Seleucid and Egyptian kingdoms in the centuries after Alexander the Great, though the poetic language about "times and years" gives the passage an air of inevitability and divine foreknowledge. The main point is that warfare and earthly power keep escalating until God's purposes ultimately prevail, which can be both sobering and strangely comforting depending on where you find yourself in life's battles.