I ISSUED “THE FINAL QUESTION” ON MY BLOG 9 YEARS AGO ON JULY 17, 2008.
The Final Question in Daniel 12!
What shall be the end of these Things?
Iranian Double Motivation to Destroy Israel
Messianic Shiite Madhi and Caliphate Expansionism
So as to revive the once huge Islamic Empire of Muhammad
Greater Than the Magnificent Persian Empire of Cyrus and Darius!
December 19, 2017
The doctrines of the Word, after the completion of the New Testament, were quite sufficient to understand the truth concerning salvation of the soul, security of the believer, baptism, the church, the Lord’s Supper, and other elements of the faith. Of course, everything in the Bible is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and certainly that is also true with prophecy, but the truth of it consists of an unveiling of what it means with the passage of time, and the unfulfilled portions of it become clearer as the first parts are actually fulfilled. The statement, “Jesus is coming back one day in the future” is doctrinal truth. But the statement, “Jesus is likely to return before 2020 is opinion.” The word translated as “revelation” means “to uncover,” “to unveil,” “to expose.” When some famous icon is slowly unveiled, the surer a person will be of its identification before the last tiny bit of it is exposed to view. The same is generally true with Bible prophecy. As God exposes more of the truth by fulfilled prophetic events, the better we can understand how the other pieces of the puzzle will fit, based on that which has just been fulfilled. So, in some cases where I goofed on what a prophecy meant when I saw it actually come to pass, I went back and put it in the right part of the puzzle, and it made me see much more clearly why I was wrong, and how some other parts would now properly fit. As we draw closer to the end of Daniel’s prophecies of the events of the end of the Age of the Gentiles, it is not only the time of man’s fantastic increase in scientific expertise that has expanded, but his understanding of the correct interpretation of prophetic Scriptures as his knowledge is enhanced by the fulfillment of it. I am of the opinion that the words, once “closed up and sealed till the time of the end,” are presently being opened and unsealed in the day to day activities occurring in the Middle East.
Daniel 12:4-9
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. [5] Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. [6] And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? [7] And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. [8] And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? [9] And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
A time equals one year, times equals two years, and half a time equals ½ year, each year being 360 days in length, for a total of 1260 days. The “time, times, and a half” represent the last three and one half years of the Tribulation Period when the forces of the Islamic Antichrist drive south into Israel. It ends the mystery of the Age of the Gentiles when it closes. I believe the Daniel 12 angel is the same angel in Revelation 10. Revelation 10:5-7 – And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, [6] And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: [7] But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.