Daniel 12 - Michael Stands Up. - NIV

1. Michael Will Stand up and There Will Be a Time of Great Distress.

Daniel 12:1 "At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of ______________ such as has not ______________ from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people--everyone whose name is found written in the book--will be ________________.

The reference to those written in the book suggests judgment.

2. Resurection for Those Who Sleep in the Dust.

Daniel 12:2-3 __________________ who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. [3] Those who are wise will shine like the __________________ of the heavens, and those who lead many to _______________________, like the stars for ever and ever.

Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, close up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to ______________ ________________."

There are two possible outcomes for those who sleep. What are they?

1) _________________________________________________________

2) _________________________________________________________

3. Daniel Hears a Prediction about Time.

Daniel 12:5-7 Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the ______________ bank. [6] One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, "How long will it be before these astonishing things are ________________?" [7] The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, __________, "It will be for a time, times and half a time. When the power of the holy __________ has been ____________ __________, all these things will be ________________."

Daniel 12:8-12 I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, "My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?" [9] He replied, "Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. [10] Many will be ______________, made ______________ and refined, but the wicked will ______________ to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand. [11] "From the time that the daily ________________ is abolished and the ___________________ that causes __________________ is set up, there will be 1,290 days. [12] Blessed is the one who waits for and ____________ the end of the "1,335 days.

Daniel 12:13 "As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to ____________ your allotted ___________________."

Again we see a time, times and a half a time. You will recall that a time is a Jewish year containing 360 days. A time and times and a half a time is three and a half years. 360 + 360 + 360 + 180 days = 1, 260 days. With a day representing a year in prophecy, this is a 1, 260 year prophecy.

The regular sacrifice represents Christ's all sufficient death in our behalf. At the beginning ofthe 1, 260 years someone would interfer with that truth or assurance.

The 1, 290 days and the 1, 335 days point to a time after the books of judgment have been opened suggesting the blessing to be allowed to witness the finishing God's plan for the salvation of humanity and the better understanding of that plan.

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