from verse 36 on through verse 42 as the French Revolution but you your understanding totally sidesteps the French Revolution and so he asked what is your understanding of verses 36 through 39 and it's at this point we're going to begin those verses we we want to emphasize that we're going to from this point on as we march through these verses we're still going to reach back into previous verses there's still information that that needs to be established but we're trying to do it in a systematic order so if there's some things that we seem to have passed over hopefully we intend to get back to them but in verse 36 of Daniel chapter 11 we'll begin that study now and I'd like to read verses 36 to 39 as we start and the king shall do according to his will and he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every God and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished for that that is determined shall be done neither shall he regard the God of his father's nor the desire of woman nor regard any God for he shall magnify himself above all but in his estate shall he honor the God of forces and a God whom his father knew not shall he honor with gold and silver and precious stones and pleasant things thus shall he do in the most strongholds with a strange God whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for gain now the for me in verse 36 where Uriah Smith makes a wrong turn and I'm not trying to attack Uriah Smith I'm just trying to use it as a point of reference to clarify this in verse 36 it says and the king and Uriah Smith if you read his book and we should have his book according to the spirit of prophecy because sister white says we should be handing his book out if we should if it's one of the books that we should be getting out among non Adventist and by rights we should at least have one in the house and if you have the book you'll see that he tries to make a case for verse 36 that the king the very opening three words of verse 36 and the king he tries to make a case that if you can say a king that the following will make better sense but brothers and sisters the Hebrew says the king now the point is this and Uriah Smith acknowledges this if verse 36 is the king as the Hebrew says then the the literary implications is that Daniel is just continuing to elaborate about the king that has been identified