Actually the events in Dan 11:36-45 have happened and followed on immediately after the fall of the kings of the north and south of Dan 11:5-35.
Antiochus was defeated by the Romans in 189 BC. Both the Seleucid and Ptolemic empires were swallowed up by the Roman empire in the first century BC. Hence Dan 11:36 THE KING. Verses 11:36-39 are fulfilled by the Roman Empire.
In saying this, you are completely neglecting several points of significant importance.
First, from verse 36 on, not a single detail has been fulfilled in such precise accuracy that anyone has ever claimed that its very accuracy proves it could not have been written before the events in question took place.
Second, you are neglecting the time span between the middle of verse 35 and the beginning of verse 36, “until the time of the end.” You are imagining that verse 36 comes immediately after the beginning of verse 35.
Third, you are bringing in a new dimension into the prophecy, something that had not even been part of the subject up to that time. All of the prophecy up to this point had involved the remnants of the Empire of Alexander the great. And now you are injecting a completely different power into the interpretation.
And finally, you are suddenly changing the subject from the behavior of individual leaders of dynasties to the behavior of Empires in general.
The empire was divided in 395 (see last part of verse 39.)
Here, you have changed three details of the prophecy. First, the king in question would divide “the land.” This ALWAYS means the land of Israel. But you have changed it to the Roman Empire. And second, you have ignored the detail that HE would “divide the land.” If “the king” were indeed “the Roman Empire,” this empire did not divide itself, but rather was divided. And third, you neglected the detail that this division would be done “for gain.” Instead of reflecting gain, this division was exceedingly costly to the Roman Empire.
After the west fell the empire continued in the east for nearly 1000 years. In 7th century a new king of the south appeared and attacked the capital (Constantinople) of what was left of the roman empire and took the middle east and Africa. This corresponds to the fifth trumpet of Rev 9.
Here, you are changing the meaning of “the king of the south.” You are changing a power that originated from Egypt to a power that originates from what is now Saudi Arabia. And in claiming that this was a fulfillment of the fifth seal of Revelation 9, you are ignoring almost every detail of that prophecy.
Then in the 11th century another king of the north appeared like a whirlwind. Within 20 years of the Battle of Manzikert the Seljuks controlled almost the entire Anatolian peninsula while the Ottomans fulfilled the rest of Dan 11:40-45. The Turkish empires correspond to the 6th trumpet of Rev 9. The Seljuq empire was almost identical in area to tge Seleucid empire so the appelation "king of the north" was entirely accurate while the Arab caliphate covered much of the former Ptolemaic empire.
Here, you seem to be combining two competitive empires into a single unit, beginning as the Seljuks and continuing as the Ottomans. The only thing that these empires had in common was that they both professed an adherence to Islam.
It is true that the Arab caliphates covered much of the same area as the Selucid Empire, but it is not accurate to say that the areas were “almost identical.”
While the Ottomans indeed conquered Egypt and Libya, they did not subdue Ethiopia, and Edom, Moab, and Ammon (which together comprise modern Jordan) did not escape out of their hands.
And again, in claiming that the Turkish empires fulfilled the sixth trumped of Revelation 9, you are ignoring almost every detail of that prophecy.
But this is typical of Historicism. Everything that the Holy Spirit said in the prophetic scriptures is reduced to murky analogies, with nothing being assumed to actually mean what it says.
