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Daniel 12

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1 And at that time shall Michael stand, the great prince who stands for the sons of thy people; and there shall be a time of adversity, which was not since there was a nation even·​·to that same time; and at that time thy people shall escape, every one who shall be·​·found written in the book.

2 And many of them sleeping in the ground of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, the rest* to reproach and eternal abhorrence.

3 And the intelligent shall shine as the shining of the expanse, and those who turn many to be·​·just, as the stars for eternity and forever.

4 But thou, O Daniel, block·​·off the words, and seal the book, even·​·to the time of the end; many shall run·​·around, and knowledge shall be multiplied.

5 And I, Daniel, saw, and, behold, there stood two others, one here on the lip of the river and one there on the lip of the river.

6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was on the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

7 And I heard the man clothed with linen, who was above the waters of the river, and he lifted·​·up his right hand and his left hand to the heavens, and promised by Him who lives for eternity that it shall be for a season of seasons and a half; and when they have completed scattering the hand of the holy people, all these things shall be completed.

8 And I heard, but I understood not; and said I, O my Lord, what shall be the last of these things?

9 And He said, Go, Daniel; for the words are blocked·​·off and sealed until the time of the end.

10 Many shall be purified, and made·​·white, and examined; but the wicked shall act·​·wickedly, and all the wicked shall not understand; but the intelligent shall understand.

11 And from the time that the continual offering shall be removed, and to the giving of the detestable that makes·​·desolate, shall be a thousand two·​·hundred and ninety days.

12 Happy is he who tarries, and reaches to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

13 But go thou even to the end; and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

   


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Heaven

  
The Plains of Heaven, by John Martin

Heaven" and "heavens" are used many times in the Bible, with a couple of variations of meaning. Sometimes it is relatively literal, including times when the Lord is identified with it (“Our Father, who art in the heavens,” for instance), meaning heaven as the eternal home for people who chose to do what is good in this life and let the Lord lead them to a love of being good. In other references, particularly when it is paired with “earth” or other lesser ideas (“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” for instance), “heaven” or “heavens” means our internal life as opposed to our external life. In a way, these two meanings are really the same. If you think about the importance of your deepest thoughts and feelings, you can see that they are the “real” you, much more so than your body is. The relationship between the spiritual world and the natural world is similar; the spiritual world is the “real” one, and controls the natural world the same way our thoughts and feeling control our actions. So in both cases, “heaven” describes a deeper reality that we will enter fully after we die.

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