Seal It Up Daniel

Daniel 8:26-27

"The vision of the evenings and the mornings which has been told you is true. But seal up the vision, for it has to do with and belongs to the [now] distant future.

And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick [for several] days. Afterward I rose up and did the king’s business; and I wondered at the vision, but there was no one who understood it or could make it understood.

Daniel 12:4-8

But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the Book until the time of the end. [Then] many shall run to and fro and search anxiously [through the Book], and knowledge [of God’s purposes as revealed by His prophets] shall be increased and become great.

Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, there stood two others, the one on the brink of the river on this side and the other on the brink of the river on that side.

And one 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?

And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right and his left hand toward the heavens and swore by Him Who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half a time [or three and one-half years]; and when they have made an end of shattering and crushing the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what shall be the issue and final end of these things?

Daniel 12:9-13

And he [the angel] said, Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.

Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be tried, smelted, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the teachers and those who are wise shall understand.

And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.

Blessed, happy, fortunate, spiritually prosperous, and to be envied is he who waits expectantly and earnestly [who endures without wavering beyond the period of tribulation] and comes to the 1,335 days!

But you [Daniel, who was now over ninety years of age], go your way until the end; for you shall rest and shall stand [fast] in your allotted place at the end of the days."

A lot of things were going on in Daniel's day. He was captured, put with wizards, and had to endure contempt for the gospels sake. He was shown things that would transpire in the last days of Jesus coming and being a sin offering, and dying on a tree. Daniel was told things that would happen to the Jesus People in the last days, and then he was asked to seal it up, because they would search it out in their day, and then He told him to go to his place, and wait for he would be in that allotted place with the holy Jesus People.

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