In a parallel prophecy, Revelation 11:2 says, “and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.”
Thus “the saints” are also spiritually called “the holy city.”
As the last act of the drama, Daniel 11:45 describes “the King of the north” (the papacy revived) planting his palace (for a final assault) between the seas and “the glorious holy mountain” (where “the holy city” made up of God’s loyal remnant “saints” abide);
but then he comes “to his end” because our Great Prince Michael rises to defend and deliver His saints (Daniel 12:1).
----Thus, the final verses of Daniel 11 point, not to earthly Jerusalem or unbelieving Jews,
----but to Satan’s final campaign against God’s faithful Remnant people represented as His “holy city” huddled on His “glorious holy mountain,” which is Mt. Sion, where the 144,000 stand with the Lamb (see Revelation 14:1).
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