"But as for you, go your way to the end, then you will enter into rest and rise again." Daniel 12:13
10:12 Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words. I love this passage that Daniel was strengthened as soon as he heard a voice. Daniel...the one who was in anguish, pain, confusion...no more.God is calling me to go my way...to the end.
PRAYER FROM PSALMS
PSALM 141:1
I call to You, O God,
Come Quickly.
I am so amazed at the consistency of the Bible. Everything parallels from Book to Book, and sets up for a terrifying final scene. From Jeremiah to Isaiah to Daniel to the Revelation of John, these End Time events are specific and descriptively consistent. And all ultimately depict the victory of the One Who Reigns as King of King and Lord of Lords.
ReplyDeleteMy husband loves sci-fi movies where the wildest things happen, but nothing compares to the real Last Days in drama and judgment. We couldn't dream up this kind of action and "Good Guy on the White Horse wins" type of scenario. It was enough to make Daniel fall to his face and zap him of all his strength. It was enough to throw Jeremiah into a spin, to cause Isaiah to proclaim "I am a man of unclean lips" and to probably cause all of them to lose more than a couple nights' rest. Did you notice angels kept having to upright the humans when they are witnessing these visions?
As terrible as those days will be, it is reassuring to know that all will be set right, that justice will be carried out, that Jesus will take His rightful Place and rule over all one Day. It helps to know when it gets dark that it will get better. And it summons us to go and spread the Good News because it will be a horrible day for lost souls when these events unfold.
Isn't that a beautiful line that the angel gives Daniel in the end to take comfort and rest--the events you saw are for the future not now so, "Go your way to the end, then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age."