Daniel 12:9-13............
Go your way, Daniel:
Dan had to have felt confused and frustrated. He heard but did not understand. The command to go your way is literally merely “to go” but it is not meant physically. The angel told Daniel to make a mental departure from the questioning. More details would be revealed later; but Daniel must be content with what God has revealed thus far.
For the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end:
Daniel must make a mental departure from his questioning, because the revealing of these things will not come till the time of the end. Until then, there is a sense in which these prophecies are closed up and sealed. So far it has been about 2500 years.
We shouldn’t think there was no instruction, no blessing, or no benefit in these words for any generation until the time of the end. But the meaning of these prophecies would be less mysterious at the time of the end. In other words, as the time approaches, the meanings will become clearer and clearer................Like TODAY!
The massive interest in prophecy, and the incredible development in understanding of Biblical prophecy in the last 150 years should make us see that we truly are at the time of the end.
May I say to everyone, there was not really a lot of work done in Bible Prophecy until May 14, 1948. THAT is the day that the clock started ticking. That is the day the Jews were placed back into the Promised Land. THAT made everything in Daniel and the Revelation relevant overnight!
Ezekiel 37:21-22............
“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or divided into two kingdoms.”
One of the common arguments against some understandings of Biblical prophecy is “Your ideas are new. The early church or Christians through the ages didn’t teach these things. Your ideas are wrong because they are new.”
But this word to Daniel, that the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end should make us think differently.
Additionally, when we look at Church history, we see that God has successively had the church focus on specific areas of doctrine at different periods. That is commonly referred to as DISPENSATIONALISM. Our present understanding of many areas of Biblical teaching were only most carefully and precisely defined after God appointed the church to focus on that doctrinal area.
For example, in the second through fourth centuries, the church focused on the doctrine of Scripture.
In the fourth century, the focus was on the doctrine of God (in the Trinity).
In the fifth century, the focus was on the doctrine of Christ.
In the fifth through seventh centuries, the focus was on the doctrine of man.
In the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, the focus was on the doctrine of salvation.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the focus was on the doctrine of the church.
The doctrine of Grace did not appear until 1550 with Luther and the Reformation. Until then it was taught that salvation was through Jesus Christ PLUS the Church.
So it should not surprise us that it was not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – the time of the end – that the focus would turn upon the doctrine of last things and the return of Jesus.
Many shall be purified, made white, and refined:
This is another prediction for what was future to Daniel, because this degree of purification is only possible after the finished work of Jesus on the cross.
But the wicked shall do wickedly:
Most specifically, we would say that this prediction has to do with the end times, when wickedness will abound more than ever (as in the Antichrist and his government), but an innumerable multitude will also be saved (as is seen in Revelation 7:9-10).
And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days:
This was an amazingly specific prophecy. Daniel said that from the time of the abomination of desolation, you can simply start marking off your calendar to the final consummation of all things, 1,290 days later. Of course I hope that you remember that I spent a lot of time on this but the short story is that when a MAN stands in the Re-Built Temple and says to the world that HE IS GOD.....Start your countdown.
Also..........This is exactly why born again Christians can not be here!!!!!
This is why Jesus pointed to Daniel’s prophecy of the abomination of desolation as the sign that would mark the immediacy of His return (Matthew 24:15).
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days:
It is difficult to say what the relationship is between the three and one-half years mentioned in many places and the 1,335 days mentioned here. We could say that at the end of the 1,260 days Jesus returns. At the end of the 1,290 days, Jesus’ government is officially installed.
Daniel 12:11 mentions 1,290 days, however, which is 30 days more than the second half of the tribulation. Different ideas have been put forward to explain what happens in those 30 extra days. One likely theory is that the land of Israel will be rebuilt in that month after the devastation it endured during the tribulation.
Then, according to Daniel 12:12, there will be an extra 45 days, on top of the extra 30 days, after which something else will happen.
Daniel does not say explicitly what will happen, but he says those who remain until the end of that segment (1,335 days after the breaking of the treaty and 75 days after the end of the tribulation) will be “blessed.” The blessing here is entry into the millennial kingdom.
What will take place during those 45 days?
Very likely, this is when the judgment of the Gentile nations, described in Matt. 25:31-46, will take place. In this judgment, also called the judgment of the sheep and the goats, the Gentiles are judged for their treatment of Israel during the tribulation.
Did they aid Jesus’ “brothers and sisters” (Matt. 25:40), or did they turn a blind eye to the Jews’ troubles or, worse yet, aid in their persecution?
So, those who survive the tribulation and survive the sheep and goat judgment will enter the millennium. This is a blessing, indeed.
Dr. John Walvoord............
“It is quite possible that this period of judgment of those that have lived through the tribulation period and have survived somehow during this holocaust when God’s judgment will be poured out upon the earth, when they are brought to stand before Jesus at this judgment, that this judgment of the Lord will take a forty-five day period.”
But you, go your way till the end:
Daniel’s mind was filled with exciting and frightening prophetic thoughts. Perhaps it was easy for those things to become a distraction instead of a blessing to him. So the angel concluded with an important reminder: go your way till the end. God had a course He wanted Daniel to complete, and Daniel needed to remain focused on that.
Adam Clarke Commentaries draws the following points from Daniel 12:13:
1. Every man has his way to go.
2. Every man has an end.
3. There is a rest provided for the people of God.
4. There is an inheritance for the people of God.
At the end of the gospel of John, Jesus told Peter about his destiny to die as a martyr for Jesus. Peter wanted to know about John’s destiny, so he asked Jesus, “What about John?” Essentially, Jesus replied, “It’s none of your business. You follow Me” (John 21:22).
In the same way, Daniel was not to spend all of his time and energy speculating and worrying about things he couldn’t know. Instead, he should simply obey the word to go your way till the end – something we must all do.
I hope that this study has been a blessing to you all who have followed along. It is my prayer that when you put all of this together you will be able to print it out and put it together and use it as you see fit. I would suggest that you leave it in a PROMINANT PLACE well labeled. You do not know how much time is left before the Rapture and you may have some family who want to know what happened to YOU after it takes place. THIS production will give them the information they need.
Another idea is to place it in a binder, well labeled and place it on your coffee table as I did. When family and friends come over, someone may just pick it up and try to tell you what Daniel was talking about.
God will purify and preserve His people, and has set a limit of days to the time of trouble.
"And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”Go your way, Daniel:
Dan had to have felt confused and frustrated. He heard but did not understand. The command to go your way is literally merely “to go” but it is not meant physically. The angel told Daniel to make a mental departure from the questioning. More details would be revealed later; but Daniel must be content with what God has revealed thus far.
For the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end:
Daniel must make a mental departure from his questioning, because the revealing of these things will not come till the time of the end. Until then, there is a sense in which these prophecies are closed up and sealed. So far it has been about 2500 years.
We shouldn’t think there was no instruction, no blessing, or no benefit in these words for any generation until the time of the end. But the meaning of these prophecies would be less mysterious at the time of the end. In other words, as the time approaches, the meanings will become clearer and clearer................Like TODAY!
The massive interest in prophecy, and the incredible development in understanding of Biblical prophecy in the last 150 years should make us see that we truly are at the time of the end.
May I say to everyone, there was not really a lot of work done in Bible Prophecy until May 14, 1948. THAT is the day that the clock started ticking. That is the day the Jews were placed back into the Promised Land. THAT made everything in Daniel and the Revelation relevant overnight!
Ezekiel 37:21-22............
“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or divided into two kingdoms.”
One of the common arguments against some understandings of Biblical prophecy is “Your ideas are new. The early church or Christians through the ages didn’t teach these things. Your ideas are wrong because they are new.”
But this word to Daniel, that the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end should make us think differently.
Additionally, when we look at Church history, we see that God has successively had the church focus on specific areas of doctrine at different periods. That is commonly referred to as DISPENSATIONALISM. Our present understanding of many areas of Biblical teaching were only most carefully and precisely defined after God appointed the church to focus on that doctrinal area.
For example, in the second through fourth centuries, the church focused on the doctrine of Scripture.
In the fourth century, the focus was on the doctrine of God (in the Trinity).
In the fifth century, the focus was on the doctrine of Christ.
In the fifth through seventh centuries, the focus was on the doctrine of man.
In the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, the focus was on the doctrine of salvation.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the focus was on the doctrine of the church.
The doctrine of Grace did not appear until 1550 with Luther and the Reformation. Until then it was taught that salvation was through Jesus Christ PLUS the Church.
So it should not surprise us that it was not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – the time of the end – that the focus would turn upon the doctrine of last things and the return of Jesus.
Many shall be purified, made white, and refined:
This is another prediction for what was future to Daniel, because this degree of purification is only possible after the finished work of Jesus on the cross.
But the wicked shall do wickedly:
Most specifically, we would say that this prediction has to do with the end times, when wickedness will abound more than ever (as in the Antichrist and his government), but an innumerable multitude will also be saved (as is seen in Revelation 7:9-10).
And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days:
This was an amazingly specific prophecy. Daniel said that from the time of the abomination of desolation, you can simply start marking off your calendar to the final consummation of all things, 1,290 days later. Of course I hope that you remember that I spent a lot of time on this but the short story is that when a MAN stands in the Re-Built Temple and says to the world that HE IS GOD.....Start your countdown.
Also..........This is exactly why born again Christians can not be here!!!!!
This is why Jesus pointed to Daniel’s prophecy of the abomination of desolation as the sign that would mark the immediacy of His return (Matthew 24:15).
Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days:
It is difficult to say what the relationship is between the three and one-half years mentioned in many places and the 1,335 days mentioned here. We could say that at the end of the 1,260 days Jesus returns. At the end of the 1,290 days, Jesus’ government is officially installed.
Daniel 12:11 mentions 1,290 days, however, which is 30 days more than the second half of the tribulation. Different ideas have been put forward to explain what happens in those 30 extra days. One likely theory is that the land of Israel will be rebuilt in that month after the devastation it endured during the tribulation.
Then, according to Daniel 12:12, there will be an extra 45 days, on top of the extra 30 days, after which something else will happen.
Daniel does not say explicitly what will happen, but he says those who remain until the end of that segment (1,335 days after the breaking of the treaty and 75 days after the end of the tribulation) will be “blessed.” The blessing here is entry into the millennial kingdom.
What will take place during those 45 days?
Very likely, this is when the judgment of the Gentile nations, described in Matt. 25:31-46, will take place. In this judgment, also called the judgment of the sheep and the goats, the Gentiles are judged for their treatment of Israel during the tribulation.
Did they aid Jesus’ “brothers and sisters” (Matt. 25:40), or did they turn a blind eye to the Jews’ troubles or, worse yet, aid in their persecution?
So, those who survive the tribulation and survive the sheep and goat judgment will enter the millennium. This is a blessing, indeed.
Dr. John Walvoord............
“It is quite possible that this period of judgment of those that have lived through the tribulation period and have survived somehow during this holocaust when God’s judgment will be poured out upon the earth, when they are brought to stand before Jesus at this judgment, that this judgment of the Lord will take a forty-five day period.”
But you, go your way till the end:
Daniel’s mind was filled with exciting and frightening prophetic thoughts. Perhaps it was easy for those things to become a distraction instead of a blessing to him. So the angel concluded with an important reminder: go your way till the end. God had a course He wanted Daniel to complete, and Daniel needed to remain focused on that.
Adam Clarke Commentaries draws the following points from Daniel 12:13:
1. Every man has his way to go.
2. Every man has an end.
3. There is a rest provided for the people of God.
4. There is an inheritance for the people of God.
At the end of the gospel of John, Jesus told Peter about his destiny to die as a martyr for Jesus. Peter wanted to know about John’s destiny, so he asked Jesus, “What about John?” Essentially, Jesus replied, “It’s none of your business. You follow Me” (John 21:22).
In the same way, Daniel was not to spend all of his time and energy speculating and worrying about things he couldn’t know. Instead, he should simply obey the word to go your way till the end – something we must all do.
I hope that this study has been a blessing to you all who have followed along. It is my prayer that when you put all of this together you will be able to print it out and put it together and use it as you see fit. I would suggest that you leave it in a PROMINANT PLACE well labeled. You do not know how much time is left before the Rapture and you may have some family who want to know what happened to YOU after it takes place. THIS production will give them the information they need.
Another idea is to place it in a binder, well labeled and place it on your coffee table as I did. When family and friends come over, someone may just pick it up and try to tell you what Daniel was talking about.