set forth to Daniel is suddenly a spiritual entity instead of a geographical area and then to top it off the very next verse goes back to geographical area. Brothers and sisters of course I've never had any theological training so I don't know many of the theological rules or ideas that are used in the colleges that teach theology and nor do I really have a desire to understand those rules but from my study of prophecy when the Lord is developing a sequence of events or a sequence of symbols and those events are geography geography geography geography geography for us extremely long period of time and suddenly it switches without any interior reasoning within the passage itself to do this switch it switches from a geographical entity to a spiritual entity and then immediately back to geographical there's something wrong there there's there's something that doesn't fit the Lord doesn't do that now I'm not saying the Lord couldn't change the focus of what was coming under attack in verse 41 what I'm saying is that if he did so within that prophetic information his himself he would need to identify how why and it just isn't there so one of the reasons that we're looking at this history as we go through among other things is to bring to bear our understanding of verse 41 when we get there so let's let's look at Daniel 11 in verse 1 it it said that Gabriel has already in the previous chapter 10 described a struggle that was going on with the kings of the Persia the king of Persia against the prince of Persia which sister white identifies as Satan there's a warfare going on here that's consistent with the story of Michael emphasizing the great controversy and in verse 1 of Daniel 11 the Gabriel tells Daniel that he was also supporting Darius the mead he confirmed and strengthened him in his first year now history tells us that Cyrus is the one that came and conquered Babylon and evidently and this is one of the historical understandings that I haven't found an absolute proof positive on I've I've come across three different variables on this this Darius the mead here may have been a relative of Cyrus or maybe one of his generals or some other person some other relation to Cyrus but evidently he was put in charge of Babylon after Cyrus conquered it because it's