Daniel · 13 verses
Daniel 12
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What happens here
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The prophecy gives one endpoint as 1,290 days, then blesses the person who reaches 1,335, leaving forty-five days sitting quietly between the two.
Michael rises and the sleepers wakevv. 1–4
Michael, the great prince standing watch over Daniel’s people, rises in a time of distress without precedent. Everyone whose name is in the book is delivered; many sleeping in the dust awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. The wise shine like heaven, and those who lead many to righteousness like stars. Daniel is told to shut and seal the words until the end, when many will roam and knowledge will increase.
The sealed answervv. 5–13
Daniel sees two figures beside the river, one on each bank, while the man dressed in linen stands above the waters. One asks how long the wonders will take; the man raises both hands towards heaven and swears that it will be for a time, times, and half a time, ending when the power of the holy people is shattered. Daniel hears but does not understand, and his request for the outcome receives a wonderfully sealed answer: the words are closed until the end. Then come the figures—1,290 days, followed by a blessing for whoever reaches 1,335—and Daniel is told to go on, rest, and rise to his inheritance.
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Dan 12:1“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Dan 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Dan 12:3Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
Dan 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
Dan 12:5Then I, Daniel, looked and saw two others standing there, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.
Dan 12:6One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”
Dan 12:7And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
Dan 12:8I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”
Dan 12:9“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
Dan 12:10Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.
Dan 12:11And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.
Dan 12:12Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
Dan 12:13But as for you, go on your way until the end. You will rest, and then you will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 209 passages were voted onto 13 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 3Matthew 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
- 2John 5:28–29Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
- 3Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- 2Isaiah 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
- 2Matthew 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- 3James 5:19–20My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
- 1Jeremiah 30:7How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
- 1Matthew 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unseen from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
- 2Ezekiel 37:12Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
- 3Daniel 11:33Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.
- 1Mark 13:19For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
- 4Daniel 12:9“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
- 3Daniel 11:35Some of the wise will fall so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.
- 3Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
- 10Revelation 22:11Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
- 2Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
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