Daniel 12:8

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I heard, but I did not understand. So I said,“Sir, what will happen after these things?”

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Referenced Verses

  • Dan 10:14 : 14 Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”
  • Dan 12:6 : 6 One said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river,“When will the end of these wondrous events occur?”
  • Luke 18:34 : 34 But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.
  • John 12:16 : 16 (His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)
  • Acts 1:7 : 7 He told them,“You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.
  • 1 Pet 1:11 : 11 They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.

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    16Then I heard a human voice coming from between the banks of the Ulai. It called out,“Gabriel, enable this person to understand the vision.”

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    18As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.

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    4“But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”

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    7Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky and made an oath by the one who lives forever:“It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished.”

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    26The vision of the evenings and mornings that was told to you is correct. But you should seal up the vision, for it refers to a time many days from now.”

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