As Daniel wraps up his amazing letter, God also gives Daniel, Israel and us today some things to look forward to–the good stuff. In the final verses of chapter 12, the Lord gives us some answers through some angels who ask the same kind of questions we do. They want to know what is coming. Even with all that has already been revealed in Daniel, there is still more to know, and in the closing chapter there are some truths to look forward to.

You are going to get a shortcut to the end times, a quick way to understand eschatology, the study of last things. Daniel gives us an overview of the end times in Daniel chapter 12. Daniel will bring clarity to an area most Christians are fuzzy about.

God made it easy for us to believe His future plan for Israel and us by making over a hundred detailed prophecies that all came true within 250 years of Daniel’s writing (the immediate future) so that we would not struggle with the rest of the chapter, which predicts a time that is even future to us (the eschatological future).

The prophecy of Daniel 9 and the prophecy of the seventy weeks are very precise and detailed. This prophecy details Israel’s future, the first coming of Christ, the work of the antichrist and more.

Daniel is upset by what God reveals to him in chapter 8. What causes Daniel to be shaken? He sees two great powers in conflict, then an evil man rising up from the second great power who persecutes God’s people. But as the prophecy continues, an angel explains that this evil man seems to foreshadow another man, who is coming in the future, who is even more evil and deadly than the first.

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