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<h2><a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,'1-');">Daniel 12</a></h2>
<h4>The Climax of All History</h4>
<p class="cmn">Closes Section Three of the book: Chapters 10-12.</p>
<p class="cmn">(Remember: <a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,'1-');">Chapter 12</a> is in Hebrew—Israel is the focus.) Refers to Daniel's people, not the Church (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,16,19,24);">Dan 9:16, 19, 24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',10,14);">Dan 10:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,1);">Dan 12:1</a>).</p>
<h5>Summary: <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,'36-45');">Dan 11:36-45</a> to <a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,'1-3');">12:1-3</a></h5>
<p class="in15">1) A world ruler.</p>
<p class="in15">2) A world religion.</p>
<p class="in15">3) A world war.</p>
<p class="in15">4) A time of tribulation for Israel.</p>
<p class="in15">5) Deliverance for the people of God at the end of the tribulation.</p>
<p class="in15">6) Resurrection and judgment.</p>
<p class="in15">7) Reward of the righteous.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,1);">1</a>] "At that time" (3X) What time? (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,27);">Dan 9:27</a>).</p>
<p class="cmn"><i>be,</i> "during" = continuation.</p>
<p class="cmn">Michael ("your prince") = the angel who oversees Israel. Mentioned 4X in Scripture. Who is he always battling? <i>Satan</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Rev',12,'7-9');">Rev 12:7-9</a>). Note "dignity": <a onclick="return mV('Jdg',1,9);">Jude 9</a>; Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',10,'13-21');">Dan 10:13-21</a>.</p>
<p class="cmn">Satan is a created being... vs. "Christ &amp; Satan."</p>
<p class="cmn">vs. traditions: Milton, Dante, Goethe, et al. Where does he rule? not Hell: here! We're on <i>his</i> turf. Paradox: ignoring vs. over-reaction&#8230;</p>
<h5>"Time of Trouble"</h5>
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<tr><td>Jesus quotes</td><td>(<a onclick="return mV('Mat',24,21);">Mat 24:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mar',13,19);">Mar 13:19</a>(!); <a onclick="return mV('Rev',7,14);">Rev 7:14</a>).</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">"Time of Jacob's trouble":</td><td><a onclick="return mV('Deu',4,30);">Deu 4:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',30,7);">Jer 30:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Joe',2,2);">Joe 2:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',13,8);">Zec 13:8</a> (parallel to <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,'40-45');">Dan 11:40-45</a>); <br>Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Exd',9,18,24);">Exd 9:18, 24</a>).</td></tr>
<tr><td>Israel to "pass under the rod"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><a onclick="return mV('Eze',20,'34-38');">Eze 20:34-38</a>;</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td>"Furnace of affliction"</td><td><a onclick="return mV('Eze',22,'18-22');">Eze 22:18-22</a>;</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td>Only 1/3 spared</td><td><a onclick="return mV('Zec',13,8,9);">Zec 13:8-9</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">Woman of <a onclick="return mV('Rev',12,'1-');">Rev 12</a> (Satan cast out: <a onclick="return mV('Rev',12,10);">Rev 12:10</a>.) No longer able to accuse.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td><i>Thy people</i> (2X) shall be delivered...":</td><td><a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,18,27);">Dan 7:18, 27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',12,10);">Zec 12:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',13,8,9);">Zec 13:8-9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',30,7,11);">Jer 30:7, 11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',12,6,7);">Rev 12:6-7</a>.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">(This is the Hebrew portion of the book.)</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top">Also,</td><td><a onclick="return mV('Isa',14,'12-17');">Isa 14:12-17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',1,6);">Job 1:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',2,'1-7');">Job 2:1-7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',3,'1-5');">Zec 3:1-5</a>; cf. Ruth, "threshing floor scene" in <a onclick="return mV('Rth',3,'1-');">Chapter 3</a>.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">[Visit Yad Vashem; "Never Again" = futile...]</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td>Abomination of Desolation: ("seen" throughout Judea?)</td>
<td valign="top"><a onclick="return mV('Mat',24,15);">Mat 24:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,11);">Dan 12:11</a>.</td></tr>
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<h5>Rapture: Only the Church?</h5>
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<tr><td>"Written in the book"</td><td width="65%" style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Exd',32,32,33);">Exd 32:32-33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',69,28);">Psa 69:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',10,20);">Luk 10:20</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td width="65%" style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Rev',13,8);">Rev 13:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',17,8);">Rev 17:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',20,15);">Rev 20:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',21,27);">Rev 21:27</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not all prepared</td><td width="65%" style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Eze',20,'33-38');">Eze 20:33-38</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Israel "unblinded"</td><td width="65%" style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,25);">Rom 11:25</a></td></tr>
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<p class="cmn">Blotted out? <a onclick="return mV('Exd',32,'31-33');">Exd 32:31-33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',69,28);">Psa 69:28</a>; (cf. <a onclick="return mV('Rev',3,5);">Rev 3:5</a>; overcomers in <a onclick="return mV('1Jo',5,5);">1Jo 5:5</a>). [Distinctive: not all "saints" or "elect" are the same.]</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,2);">2</a>] Elect? (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',24,22);">Mat 24:22</a>); 144,000 (<a onclick="return mV('Rev',7,4);">Rev 7:4</a>); Saved (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,26);">Rom 11:26</a>).
<br>"Israel, Mine Elect" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,4);">Isa 45:4</a>); <a onclick="return mV('Isa',11,11);">Isa 11:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',27,12,13);">27:12-13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',30,7);">Jer 30:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',37,'21-28');">Eze 37:21-28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',3,4,5);">Hos 3:4-5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Amo',9,'11-15');">Amo 9:11-15</a>.</p>
<p class="cmn">NT "God's Elect": <a onclick="return mV('Rom',8,33);">Rom 8:33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Col',3,12);">Col 3:12</a>. [John the Baptist: <a onclick="return mV('Mat',11,11,12);">Mat 11:11-12</a>.]</p>
<p class="cmn">"Spiritual resurrection"? Dead in sins (<a onclick="return mV('Eph',2,1);">Eph 2:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eph',4,18);">Eph 4:18</a>); quickened by the Word of God (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',10,17);">Rom 10:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',4,12);">Heb 4:12</a>); passed from death to life (<a onclick="return mV('Jhn',5,24);">Jhn 5:24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eph',2,5,6);">Eph 2:5-6</a>).</p>
<p class="cmn">"National resurrection"? <a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,'12-19');">Isa 26:12-19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,14,15);">Jer 16:14-15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',20,'33-44');">Eze 20:33-44</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',37,'1-28');">Eze 37:1-28</a> (Gaebelein, Kelly, Ironside: national, not bodily(?); to support OT at rapture).</p>
<p class="cmn">Second Resurrection?<a onclick="return mV('Eph',4,'8-10');">Eph 4:8-10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',3,'18-20');">1Pe 3:18-20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',27,52,53);">Mat 27:52-53</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',61,1,2);">Isa 61:1-2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Cr',5,'1-8');">2Cr 5:1-8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',20,5,6);">Rev 20:5-6</a>;</p>
<p class="cmn">"Many": <i>but not "all."</i></p> <div style="margin-left:110px;">
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<tr><td width="40%">Abraham&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Gen',22,5);">Gen 22:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',11,19);">Heb 11:19</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Job</td><td style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Job',19,25,26);">Job 19:25-26</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>Isaiah</td><td style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,19);">Isa 26:19</a>(!)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hosea</td><td style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Hsa',13,14);">Hos 13:14</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>of Christ</td><td style="text-align:right;"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',16,9,10);">Psa 16:9-10</a></td></tr>
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<p class="cmn">There seems to be no passage in Scripture which teaches that the OT saints will be raised <i>at the time the church is raptured;</i> before the final tribulation.</p>
<p class="cmn">Hebrew sharply separates two classes of resurrection:</p>
<p class="cmn"><i>"And many from among the sleepers of the dust of the earth shall awake; these shall be unto everlasting life; but those, the rest of the sleepers, those who do not awake at this time, shall be unto shame and everlasting contempt."</i></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:right;">(Tregelles, Culber, Seiss, Nathaniel West)<br><a onclick="return mV('Rev',20,5,12,13);">Rev 20:5, 12-13</a></p>
<p class="cmn">Shame, contempt: <i>olam</i> (everlasting) modifies both. An eternal state for the wicked!</p>
<p class="cmn">"First Resurrection" is a class, not an event: Christ, the firstfruits of them that slept; the rapture; and the two witnesses are all in the "first" resurrection.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,3);">3</a>] This is the first occurrence of "everlasting life" in the OT? <a onclick="return mV('Psa',16,10);">Psa 16:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',49,15);">Psa 49:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',25,8);">Isa 25:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,19);">Isa 26:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',13,14);">Hos 13:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',11,17,18);">Heb 11:17-18</a>; cf. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,33);">Dan 11:33</a>.</p>
<p class="cmn">Jewish "teachers": <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,'33-35');">Dan 11:33-35</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',7,'4-8');">Rev 7:4-8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',11,'2-12');">Rev 11:2-12</a>.</p>
<p class="cmn">"brightness of the expanse": <i>Zachar,</i> to be brilliant.</p>
<p class="cmn">"lights": <a onclick="return mV('Mat',5,'14-16');">Mat 5:14-16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',5,35);">Jhn 5:35</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eph',5,8);">Eph 5:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Cr',4,6);">2Cr 4:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',15,'41-42');">1Cr 15:41-42</a>.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,'4');">4</a>] "Revealed" in last days; primary application to "the time of the end."</p>
<p class="cmn">The Book of Revelation is not sealed. <a onclick="return mV('Rev',22,10);">Rev 22:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',1,3);">Rev 1:3</a></p>
<p class="cmn">[If Knowledge doubles each decade? then, 50% of all "knowledge" has been added these past 10 years!?]</p>
<p class="cmn">Hebrew <i>hadda'at</i>, "the knowledge," i.e. <span style="text-decoration:underline">this</span> prophecy. Link with <a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,'3');">Dan 12:3</a> (vs. <a onclick="return mV('Amo',8,12);">Amo 8:12</a>).</p>
<div style="margin-left:50px;"><p>Israel's blindness to be relieved (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,25);">Rom 11:25</a>).
<br>Sealing: made secure; preserved; until end (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,35,40);">Dan 11:35, 40</a>).
<br>"to/fro" = search: <a onclick="return mV('2Ch',16,9);">2Ch 16:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,1);">Jer 5:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',49,3);">Jer 49:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Amo',8,12);">Amo 8:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',4,10);">Zec 4:10</a>.<br>(Daniel was now over 80 years old.)</p></div>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,5);">5</a>] Jesus is "man" in linen? Two others were probably angels. Two witnesses: <a onclick="return mV('Deu',19,15);">Deu 19:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',31,28);">Deu 31:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Cr',13,1);">2Cr 13:1</a>.</p>
<p class="cmn">Oath: <a onclick="return mV('Gen',14,22);">Gen 14:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,40);">Deu 32:40</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',10,'5-7');">Rev 10:5-7</a>.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,7);">7</a>] 3 1/2 years (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,25);">Dan 7:25</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,7);">Dan 12:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',11,2);">Rev 11:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',13,5);">Rev 13:5</a>); 1260 days; 42 months; mid-week...</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,8);">8</a>] Daniel did <i>not</i> understand. <i>(Theory of inspiration!?</i>)</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,9);">9</a>] "Go" (mental attitude): Words sealed.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,10);">10</a>] Wicked will not understand (<a onclick="return mV('1Cr',2,14);">1Cr 2:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Th',2,11);">2Th 2:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',22,11,12);">Rev 22:11-12</a>).</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,11);">11</a>] 30 days between 1260 and 1290 unrevealed.<br><i>Tamid,</i> regular ceremonies (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,11);">Dan 8:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,31);">Dan 11:31</a>).<br>Zeus/Jupiter Olympus;<br>2300 were literal.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',12,12);">12</a>] 45 days: judgments? <a onclick="return mV('Eze',20,'34-38');">Eze 20:34-38</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',25,'31-46');">Mat 25:31-46</a><br>Start of Millennium? National Borders of <a onclick="return mV('Gen',15,18);">Gen 15:18</a>?</p>
<p class="cmn">So closes the most comprehensive prophetic revelation in the OT.</p>
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<h4>Bibliography for Daniel 7-12</h4>
<p class="hangIndent">Eastman, Mark, and Smith, Chuck, <i>The Search for Messiah,</i> The Word for Today, Costa Mesa, CA, 1993.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">Faulstich, E.W., <i>History, Harmony &amp; Daniel,</i> Chronology Books, Spencer IA, 1988.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">Fruchtenbaum, Arnold G., <i>Israelology</i>, Ariel Ministries, Tustin, CA, 1989.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">Jeffrey, Grant R., <i>Messiah,</i> Frontier Research Publications, Toronto, Ontario, 1991.</p>
<p class="hangIndent">Missler, Chuck, <i>Expositional Commentary on Revelation</i>, 4 Volumes, Koinonia House, 1993.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">© 1994 Koinonia House Inc.</p>
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