Immortality is Yours!

¶ “Also I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I (Gabriel) arose to be an encouragement and a protection for him. 2 “And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, fnthree more kings are going to arise in Persia. Then a fnfourth will become far richer than all of them. When he becomes strong through his riches he will stir up the whole empire against the realm of Greece. 3 “Then a fnmighty [warlike, threatening] king will arise who will rule with great authority and do as he pleases. 4 “But as soon as he (Alexander) has risen, his kingdom will be broken [by his death] and divided toward the four winds of heaven [the north, south, east, and west], but not to his descendants, nor according to the [Grecian] authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom will be torn out and uprooted and given to fnothers (his four generals) to the exclusion of these. 5 ¶ “Then the king of the South (Egypt) will be strong, along with one of his princes who will be stronger than he and have dominance over him; his domain will be a great dominion. 6 “After some years fnthe Syrian king of the North and the Egyptian king of the South will make an alliance; the fndaughter (Berenice) of the king of the South will come to the fnking of the North to make an equitable and peaceful agreement (marriage); fnbut she will not retain the power of her position, nor will he retain his power. She will be handed over with her attendants and her father as well as he who supported her in those times. 7 “But out of a branch of her [familial] roots will one (her brother, Ptolemy III Euergetes I) arise in his place, and he will come against the [Syrian] army and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and will prevail. 8 “Also he will carry off to Egypt their [Syrian] gods with their cast images and their precious and costly treasure of silver and of gold, and he will refrain from waging war against the king of the North for some years. 9 “And the fnking of the North will come into the realm of the king of the South, but he will retreat to his own country [badly defeated].