“YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED!”

 Daniel 12:1-4                                                             (ESV)

“1 "At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be A TIME OF TROUBLE, SUCH AS NEVER HAS BEEN since there was a nation till that time. But at that time “YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED”, everyone WHOSE NAME shall be FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK.

2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, SOME TO EVERLASTING LIFE, and SOME TO SHAME and EVERLASTING CONTEMPT.

3 And THOSE WHO ARE WISE SHALL SHINE LIKE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SKY ABOVE; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, and KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE."”

The Book of Daniel was likely written between 540 and 530 B.C. according to some scholars.  Others claim that the book was written less than 2 centuries before the birth of JESUS, maybe around 165 B.C.  Who ever is correct, the focal passages today show that Daniel was undoubtedly used by ALMIGHTY GOD to give a glimpse of what to expect IN THE LAST DAYS!

Could you agree this is “A TIME OF TROUBLE, SUCH AS NEVER HAS BEEN”?  And “MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, and KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE” sounds just like the headlines on current day news programs.  When will GOD tell HIS SON to go bring HIS children home?  HIS Mercy, Grace, and long suffering are being exhibited in measures that will ring in the minds of those who experience SHAME and EVERLASTING CONTEMPT for ETERNITY!  This sickness will NOT have a cure!  

But THE CHURCH can rest assured that “YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED” from carnage and mayhem that grips “this world” so grotesquely today.  THOSE WHO ARE WISE SHALL SHINE LIKE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SKY ABOVE says that HIS CHOSEN will illuminate the darkness around them so that others will have NO EXCUSE when JUDGMENT comes.  We aren’t better than others, our EYES have just been OPENED to see that FAITH in JESUS is our only HOPE!

The JUDGMENT is a subject that many choose to not think about.  When we stand before our CREATOR and we offer anything except what HE has done for and through us, it will be a day of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth!  The painful TRUTH is that most people won’t experience the DELIVERANCE because their NAME’s shall NOT be FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK, the LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE!  “YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE DELIVERED” is our HOPE, our PROMISE from GOD!