Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, because the vision pertains to the days still future.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days:
- KJV Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
- BSB Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
- NKJV Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come.”
- NLT Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future, for this vision concerns a time yet to come.”
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Quick answer
The messenger comes to make Daniel understand what will befall his people in the latter days. The vision concerns God's long-range plan for Israel, reaching into the distant future.
Overview
The revelation that follows in chapters 11 and 12 surveys centuries of history and points toward the end. God graciously discloses His purposes so His people can trust Him through coming turmoil. That the message concerns 'the latter days' ties Daniel's prophecy to the unfolding plan of redemption that culminates in Christ and His return.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Dan 8:26The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days to come.
- Dan 2:28but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
- Dan 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”
- Hab 2:3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
- Dan 12:9He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
- Deut 4:30When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
- Mic 4:1But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
- Isa 2:2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
- Gen 49:1Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
- Hos 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
- 2 Tim 3:1But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
- Heb 2:3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
- Dan 9:22He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.
- Deut 31:21It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”
- Dan 10:1In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
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