Daniel 12

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¹“At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book. ✦ ²Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. ✦ ³Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. ✦ 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.” ✦ ⁵Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side. ✦ ⁶One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? ✦ ⁷I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. ✦ ⁸I heard, but I didn’t understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things? ✦ ⁹He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. ✦ ¹⁰Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand. ✦ ¹¹From the time that the continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days. ✦ ¹²Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days. ✦ ¹³But go you your way until the end; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days. ✦

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Dan 8 ·10 Dan 11 ·9 Dan 12 ·8 Dan 10 ·8 Rom 11 ·5 Luke 21 ·4 Matt 24 ·4 Rev 19 ·4

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Daniel sees the stone cut without hands that shatters the kingdoms, and 'one like a son of man' given everlasting dominion — titles and visions Jesus claims as his own.

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