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Danijel 12

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1 U ono će vrijeme ustati Mihael, veliki knez koji štiti sinove tvog naroda. Bit će to vrijeme tjeskobe kakve ne bijaše otkako je ljudi pa do toga vremena. U ono vrijeme tvoj će se narod spasiti - svi koji se nađu zapisani u Knjizi.

2 Tada će se probuditi mnogi koji snivaju u prahu zemljinu; jedni za vječni život, drugi za sramotu, za vječnu gadost.

3 Umnici će blistati kao sjajni nebeski svod, i koji su mnoge učili pravednosti, kao zvijezde navijeke, u svu vječnost.

4 A ti, Daniele, drži u tajnosti ove riječi i zapečati ovu knjigu do vremena svršetka! Mnogi će tumarati, i bezakonja će rasti."

5 Ja, Daniel, pogledah, kad eno: druga dvojica stajahu jedan s jedne, drugi s druge strane rijeke.

6 Jedan upita čovjeka odjevena u lanene haljine koji stajaše iznad voda rijeke: "Kada će doći kraj tim čudesima?"

7 Začuh čovjeka odjevena u lanene haljine, koji stajaše iznad voda rijeke; on podiže k nebu desnicu i ljevicu, kunući se Vječno živim. "Nakon jednog vremena, dva vremena i pola vremena - kada dođe kraj rasulu snage svetoga naroda - sve će se to svršiti."

8 Ja slušah, ali ne razumjeh, pa upitah: "Gospodaru, kako će to svršiti?"

9 On reče: "Idi, Daniele, ove su riječi tajne i zapečaćene do vremena svršetka.

10 Mnogi će se očistiti, ubijeliti i prokušati; a bezbožnici će i dalje biti bezbožni; bezbožnici se neće urazumjeti, a umnici će razumjeti.

11 Od časa kad bude dokinuta svagdašnja žrtva i postavljena grozota pustoši: tisuću dvjesta i devedeset dana.

12 Blago onomu koji dočeka i dosegne tisuću trista trideset i pet dana!

13 A ti idi i otpočini; ustat ćeš da primiš svoju baštinu na kraju dana."

   

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True Christian Religion # 788

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788. It was Daniel who prophesied that this church would take the place of those which had come into existence since the world began, and would last for ever and ever. It would thus be the crown of all the preceding churches. He made this prophecy first when he recounted and explained to Nebuchadnezzar his dream of the four kingdoms, which mean the four churches, represented by the statue he saw:

In the days of those kings the God of the heavens will cause a kingdom to arise which shall not perish for ever; and it will consume all those kingdoms, but itself will stand for ever, Daniel 2:44.

This was to be brought about by a stone becoming a mighty rock filling the whole earth (Daniel 2:35). Rock in the Word means the Lord in respect of Divine Truth. Elsewhere the same prophet says:

I was watching in the visions of the night, and I saw, one like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of the heavens. And to Him was given dominion, glory and the kingdom, and all peoples, nations and tongues shall worship Him. His dominion will be a dominion for ever, which will not pass away, and His kingdom one that will not perish, Daniel 7:13-14.

He says this after seeing four great beasts coming up from the sea (Daniel 7:3); these too represent the four former churches. Daniel prophesied these things about the present time, as is evident from his words at Daniel 12:4; as well as from the Lord's words, Matthew 24:15, 30. Similar things are said in Revelation:

The seventh angel sounded; and loud voices were heard in heaven saying, The kingdoms of the world are made our Lord's and His Christ's, and He shall reign for ever and ever, Revelation 11:15.

  
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