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Michael’s Deliverance and the End Times

(Revelation 1:1-3)

¹ At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress such as never has occurred from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.² And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.³ Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens^(a), and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.⁴ But 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.”

⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked and saw two others standing there, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank.⁶ One 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?”⁷ And 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, times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been shattered, all these things will be completed.”⁸ I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?”⁹ “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

¹⁰ Many 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.