The King of Fierce Countenance: Isaiah 19 and Daniel 8 Are Being Fulfilled Right Now

A Cruel Lord and a Fierce King

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says AO Lord of hosts. — Isaiah 19:4

This is the fourth verse of a prophecy that begins with judgment — a burden placed on Egypt. Not the Egypt of the pharaohs. Not the Egypt of antiquity. The Egypt of the end — the nation that carries out the four hundred years of affliction prophesied in Genesis 15:13.

And into that nation, AO places a fierce king.

Daniel saw the same ruler from a different angle:

23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

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.

26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it. — Daniel 8:23–27

Two prophets. Two visions. One king. And every word of it is unfolding right now.

The Burden of Egypt — Isaiah 19:1–4

Before the fierce king appears, Isaiah lays out what precedes him. And the sequence is unmistakable.

Behold, AO rides upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. - Isaiah 19:1

We will return to this verse at the end — because what AO showed the world in this verse is a sign that most people missed entirely. But keep it in mind.

And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. - Isaiah 19:2

Look around. Americans are at each other's throats. Cities against cities. States against states. The redistricting fights. The immigration clashes. The political polarization that has made every dinner table a battlefield. Isaiah saw it thousands of years ago — Egyptians against Egyptians.

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. - Isaiah 19:3

The counsel of the nation fails. The spirit of the nation collapses. And the people seek answers from everything except AO — from their idols, their ideologies, their political saviors, their partisan prophets.

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says AO of hosts. - Isaiah 19:4

This is not a warning that a fierce king might arise. It is a declaration from AO of hosts that He is the one placing this king over them. He is giving them over. This is judgment.

"But Not by His Own Power"

Daniel 8:24 makes the source of this king's authority unmistakable: "His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power."

This is the language of Exodus 9:16:

And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, for to show in you My power; and that My Name may be declared throughout all the earth.

AO said this to Pharaoh. He raised Pharaoh up — not because Pharaoh was righteous, not because Pharaoh deserved power — but so that through the judgment on Pharaoh, the entire world would know the name and power of AO.

The same pattern is repeating. As it was in the past, so shall it be in the end.

Donald Trump did not seize power by his own strength. He was raised up. Steve Bannon said it plainly: "He's a vehicle of divine providence. He's an instrument. He's very imperfect. He's not churchy, not particularly religious, but he's an instrument of divine will."

Even his own allies understand it. They just don't understand whose will it serves — or what comes after.

Trump himself has acknowledged this, though he frames it in his own language. After his victory in the 2024 election, he told the nation: "Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason."

He is right that his life was spared for a reason. He is wrong about what the reason is. He was not spared to save America. He was raised up to fulfill Isaiah 19:4 — to be the cruel lord and fierce king through whom AO commences the judgment on the nation that afflicted His people.

By Peace Shall Destroy Many

Daniel 8:25 contains one of the most chilling lines in all of prophecy: "By peace shall destroy many."

Peace abroad. War at home.

Peace summits between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Peace deals between Israel and Palestine. The self-styled president of peace on the world stage — while at home, federal troops are deployed into American cities. Chicago. Memphis. Washington, D.C. New Orleans. Cities with heavy populations of the children of Israel.

Trump, the self-styled president of peace abroad, makes war at home.

This is not a contradiction. It is the prophecy. By peace — by the appearance of peace, by the policy of peace — he destroys many. And the "many" Daniel identifies are not foreign enemies. Look at verse 24: "He shall destroy the mighty and the holy people."

The holy people. The children of Israel. The ones brought back to Egypt by ships (Deuteronomy 28:68). The ones whose captivity is approaching its end.

When They Shall Say Peace and Safety

As this post is being written, Iran, Israel, and America are in active peace negotiations. The world is being told that peace is at hand — that diplomacy will resolve the tensions of the Middle East. They want you to believe that you are witnessing the end time prophecies of Christianity being fulfilled — that their messiah is arriving on schedule.

But Daniel 8:25 already told you the pattern: by peace shall destroy many. And the authors of the New Testament clearly plagiarized this concept:

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. — 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Peace and safety. That is the banner. And sudden destruction is what follows.

And consider what JC himself listed as the signs of the end in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21: false messiahs, wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes in diverse places, Jerusalem encompassed round about with armies, and a sign in the sky before the nations mourn.

A false messiah claiming to be the true Messiah? Christianity has built its entire theology on that claim. Wars and rumors of wars? Turn on any news channel. Earthquakes in diverse places? A 7.4 magnitude earthquake just struck Japan. Jerusalem encompassed with armies? This alone should tell you what comes next in this war. A sign in the sky before all the nations of the earth mourn? We will address that in the next post.

Every sign they attribute to their own end-times theology is unfolding — but they are reading the signs through the wrong lens. These are not signs of JC's return. These are the signs that AO is moving to deliver His people and judge the nation that held them captive. Fix your prophetic eyes here — on America, the true scene of the story — not across the pond, on the movie set they constructed to deceive you.

The Strong Delusion

How is it possible that millions of believers — people who claim to follow the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — are cheering for the very king that Scripture warns about?

Because AO told you exactly how this would happen:

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. — Isaiah 66:4

When He called, none answered. When He spoke, they did not hear. So He chose their delusion for them. The strong delusion is not an accident. It is a judgment — the same judgment described in 1 Samuel 8:

And AO said to Samuel, "Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you: for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them." — 1 Samuel 8:7

The people wanted a king. AO gave them one. But He told Samuel to warn them — to show them the manner of the king that would reign over them. And what does 1 Samuel 8:18 say?

And you shall cry out in that day because of your king which you shall have chosen you; and AO will not hear you in that day.

You shall cry out. And He will not hear you. That is what a strong delusion looks like. You cheer for your own judgment, and when the consequences arrive, the one you rejected will not answer.

Understanding Dark Sentences

Daniel 8:23 says this king "understands dark sentences." The Hebrew word for "dark sentences" is chiydah — and Proverbs 1:6 tells us exactly what this means:

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. — Proverbs 1:6

Dark sayings are not references to the occult. They are references to Scripture itself — to the deep meanings, the hidden layers, the prophetic patterns embedded in the word of AO. This king understands the Scriptures. Not the sanitized, mistranslated versions given to the public — but the unadulterated text. They have access to what was hidden, and they know exactly what they are waiting for.

This is why the Department of Defense was just renamed the Department of War.

This is why the founding of America was not an accident of history. The builders — the ones Scripture calls by that name — have been working since Genesis 11, when men of one language and one speech attempted to build their own way to heaven. The Tower of Babel. AO scattered them and confused their languages. But the builders never stopped building.

And consider what they built with. Genesis 11:3 says: "They had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." Brick instead of stone. Man-made instead of natural. This is the signature of the builders — artificial substitution for what AO created. Freemasons identify themselves with bricks to this day because their entire philosophy descends from Babel.

Compare this with what AO commands regarding His altar:

And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it. — Exodus 20:25

AO says: do not even touch My stone with your tool. The moment man shapes it, it is polluted. But the builders insist on shaping everything — bricks instead of stone, man's order instead of AO's, a tower instead of an altar.

They went underground. They formed lodges and orders and societies. Fifty-three of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were Master Masons. The founding documents of this nation declared the children of Israel — AO's chosen people — to be worth three-fifths of other men. And they have been working in one language ever since — the language of symbols, of gematria, of dark sentences.

Daniel saw the king who would understand that language. And he is standing up now. The 47th president. 47 — the angle of the compass in the Freemason logo. The chapter in Genesis when the first Egypt rises to power.

The Time of Jacob's Trouble

7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says AO of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

9 But they shall serve AO their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. — Jeremiah 30:7–9

The time of Jacob's trouble is not the end of the story. It is the last chapter before the deliverance.

Jacob himself was greatly afraid when he heard Esau was coming with four hundred men (Genesis 32:7). He divided his company. He prayed in fear. But AO had told him repeatedly — "do not be afraid. I am with you. I will keep you in all places where you go" (Genesis 28:15).

And when the moment came, it was not Jacob who was destroyed. It was Esau who became terrified. The Book of Jasher Chapter 32 records that AO sent angels who appeared as thousands of armed warriors, and Esau fell from his horse in alarm. The same pattern will repeat.

The children of Israel will be afraid. David, not Michael, will be raised up. The time of trouble such as never was will commence (Daniel 12:1). But they will be saved out of it. Edom's yoke will be broken. Plagues will fall and the Second Exodus will make the world forget the first (Jeremiah 16:14–15).

What Was the Sign?

Now let us return to where Isaiah 19 begins — the verse that everyone passes over too quickly:

Behold, AO rides upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt. — Isaiah 19:1

AO rides upon a swift cloud. Before the division. Before the counsel fails. Before the fierce king. There is a sign — AO coming into Egypt on a swift cloud.

This is not the only place in Scripture that describes AO riding through the heavens:

There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun AOshar'EL, who rides upon the heaven in your help, and in His excellency on the sky. — Deuteronomy 33:26

Sing unto God, sing praises to His name: extol Him that rides upon the heavens by His name AO, and rejoice before Him. — Psalm 68:4

And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and He was seen upon the wings of the wind. — 2 Samuel 22:11

A sign in the sky. A sign of AO riding through the heavens. A sign that precedes the judgment and the fierce king.

Did this sign already appear? And did Christianity plagiarize these very verses to manufacture a false prophecy about JC returning on clouds?

That is the subject of the next post.

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This is the fifth post in a series examining the prophecies of the Second Exodus. Previous: Genesis 15:13 Was NOT Fulfilled in Egypt. Next: The Sign in the Sky — what Deuteronomy 33:26, Isaiah 19:1, and Psalm 68:4 actually describe, and how Matthew 24:30 plagiarized them.