Doug.
None of what you are saying is in chapeter 11.Chapter 11 of Daniel is almost entirely about the USA.The country located In North America.The events described in this chapter mainly take place in the middle east since the reappearance of Israrl.The events pertaining to king of the north(USA) started when Reagan was president and end with Trump.
I know you not going to understand this but good luck anyway.
Using that sort of logic, the King of the South - is the King of South America. Really?
Daniel 11, parts of it are now historic to us. The end times parts begin in Daniel 11:36. The king in that verse exalts himself above every god. So the person has become the beast, at that point.
He believes in tiers of gods, because it says he honour the god of forces - so the god of forces will be Satan's persona during that time.
At he rises to power, he will be into the occult - Kabbalah - getting help from Satan...
Daniel 8:
24 And his power shall be mighty,
but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify
himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
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A lot of thought-to-be candidates, like U.S. presidents, Popes, Mahdi's can be eliminated because the person at one stage has to become the King of Israel thought to be messiah to the Jews - the Antichrist. He is not the Antichrist in Daniel 11, because in that chapter it picks up after the person has gone through the Antichrist stage and become the beast.
Daniel 7 - he becomes the leader of the fourth kingdom, which will have ten kings he is over - as the little horn. He does so by getting help from Satan.
Daniel 8 - he heads to the middle east and Israel, from the north and west, with a strong army.
Daniel 9 - he is the prince who shall come - from the north and west. Who the Jews will think is their messiah. And he will be anointed the King of Israel - by the false prophet. Making him the Antichrist. He confirms the Mt. Sinai covenant speech beginning the last 7 years. The Jews and the world thinking peace and safety of the messianic era.
Daniel 8 and 9 - in the middle of the 7 years, he transgresses the covenant, magnifying himself in his heart that he has achieve God-hood. He goes into the temple sits, claims to be God.
Ezekiel 28:1-10 - God has him killed for his audacious act.
Isaiah 14:18-20 - God in disdain for the person, brings him back alive. The strong delusion God sends in 2Thessalonians2. The person is then possessed by the unclean spirit coming out of the bottomless pit, which drives him, and empowers him. He becomes the beast
Daniel 11:36 - picks up near the end of the seven years, as God draws all nations into the middle east against Jerusalem.