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{11:24} And he will enter into rich and resourceful cities, and he will do 

what his fathers never did, nor his fathers  fathers. He will scatter their 

spoils, and their prey, and their riches, and will form a plan against the most 

steadfast, and this until a time. 

The Antichrist is remarkably successful in warfare because he has the help of 

devils. He overcomes weapons and armies which it would seem he should 

be unable to overcome. His opponents and their weapons are shattered 

before him, and so are the leaders. He is practiced at deception and deceitful 

stratagems. Some say that he will use youths as soldiers in battle. He 

pretends to ally with a leader, then deceives him and uses a small people to 

defeat him. The small people could be a discontented minority group, or it 

could refer to the Jewish people. 

The Antichrist uses new and unusual strategies. He crushes his enemies into 

pieces and then tramples even the residue. He takes the spoils of his battles 

and scatters them in order to win favor among those he conquers. Thus, 

unlike previous kings of the North, he is able to hold the kingdoms he 

conquers. 

He forms a plan against the most steadfast, that is, against the strongest of 

the ten kingdoms, especially the kingdom which is the last bastion of 

Christianity,  the strength,  which is the kingdom of the South, as well as 

against the Meridian and the East. 

{11:25} And his strength and his heart will be enraged against the king of 

the South with a great army. And the king of the South will be provoked 

into going to war by having many allies and exceedingly good 

circumstances, and yet these will not stand, for they will form plans against 

him. 

{11:26} And those who eat bread with him will crush him, and his army will 

be suppressed, and very many will die, having been executed. 

The South is the Middle East, the last place on earth where Christianity still 

is tolerated and has some significant influence. The Antichrist rules over one 

of the ten kingdoms, the North, and he attacks and conquers the South, the 

kingdom of Christianity first. He does this because he is evil and he 

perceives the homeland of good Christians as his natural enemy. Also, 

because the North and the South have been at war for generations, he can 

most easily lead the people of his kingdom against them in war. And he 

attacks the South because, through the experience of many generations of