Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of understanding the end-time events as outlined in Daniel 12, urging the church to be aware of both the negative and positive trends that will unfold. He highlights that while there will be great trouble and a falling away, there will also be a powerful move of the Holy Spirit, resulting in a great harvest of souls. Bickle encourages believers to remain steadfast and confident in God's sovereignty, assuring them that history is under divine control and leading to a glorious conclusion. He stresses the importance of being informed and prepared, as many will be deceived without a biblical perspective on the future. Ultimately, he calls for a radical commitment to righteousness and a deep relationship with God in anticipation of the coming days.

You hear all kinds of reports of things that are taking place, and you talk to people in the church, in the marketplace, and a lot of folks are, you know, asking the question, what's going on? Where's this thing going? A big conversation in the culture right now. And the Bible gives us a lot of clarity about where things are going. And the Bible makes it clear. Jesus said it, emphasized it, that the body of Christ needs to know the main trends of what's going to be happening in that generation. Meaning we don't need to know all the fine print and all the details, but the broad strokes, the main events that are taking place in that hour of history, we have to be clear, we have to be settled on it, because the enemy wants to distort us and to get us filled with fear and confusion. Here in paragraph A, when I look at Daniel chapter 12, one of the most important prophecies in the Word of God is here in Daniel chapter 12. A mighty angel visited Daniel and gave him significant amount of information of what's going to happen in that time frame. And the reason I'm going to, I'm emphasizing this vision in Daniel 12, really it's Daniel 11 and 12, but 12 just summarizes it and brings it to a head in such a clear way, is because Jesus, we're going to look at in a moment, Matthew 24, he points the body of Christ to this one vision in Daniel chapter 12. And when he points the body of Christ to it, he tells them in essence, understand the main ideas in that vision. It's critical that you understand it. That we need to have the biblical picture and the biblical expectation of where things are going. Some groups are overly positive, and they're going to end up being very tempted with disillusionment and offense when the negative continues to increase. Other groups are overly negative, and they don't have any vision or hope for a great breakthrough of the power of God and of the Holy Spirit breaking in in power. And what the Bible presents is a picture of the future that is intensely negative and intensely positive simultaneously. And the angel, his point in giving this mighty angel, Daniel, this information, he wants Daniel, or he wants the people of God, to be girded for action for great trouble. He doesn't want us surprised by the trouble, the intensity of it. So that we're not overcome with fear, or we don't get offended at the Lord's leadership. Lord, we thought you were good. Why is this happening like this? That we will understand that the God of all power and wisdom and love has a master plan that he's leading history in. And history is not a train that's gone off the tracks out of control. It's literally going somewhere very specific. It's redemptive, and it's glorious. And the angel wanted Daniel to know, this mighty angel, it's going to get very, very intense in the negative. But he also wanted to know there's going to be tremendous supernatural power moving through the church. There's going to be deliverance. There's going to be great victory and ultimate triumph. So, gird yourself for trouble, but be filled with confidence and peace. Don't yield to fear. Fully cooperate with the Lord with understanding, and bring others into the information of what the Bible says about this. And again, the Bible says a lot about the end times. But I feel like that the important part is the main trends. That we grasp them clearly. That we're able to share them with other people. So that when the enemy tries to get them to be filled with fear and confusion or deception, that we say, no, no. This is the biblical picture. This is the picture of the future that we should have that lines up with the Scripture and the Word of God. Paragraph C. In this grand vision of Daniel 12 that, again, we'll look at in a moment, Jesus points to and says, this is the one vision you have to be clear about. You have to understand this one. This vision emphasizes God's sovereignty over all of history. God's power even over the plans of the evil one. God is saying, I'm in control. That from the beginning, I understood this would happen. It's not surprising to me. Nothing is out of control from my point of view. I have a redemptive purpose, and I'm going to overrule Satan's plans for evil, and I'm going to turn them out for good. That we're approaching the greatest time frame of human history. The most difficult, but the most glorious. And it is a privilege to live in that time frame. And it's my personal belief, it's not a prophecy, that we're at the early days, the beginning of that generation, that we'll actually see the fullness of these things come to pass. I may see it in my lifetime. I may not see it, but I believe that my children or grandchildren or their children will see it. Again, that's not a prophecy, but that is an opinion, a biblically based opinion, based on what the Bible says will be happening in the nation called the signs of the times. And there's many signs of the times that are in the Bible. And having been a student of this, I'm more and more convinced as these signs are clearly happening on a global level. They're all, almost every one of them are escalating. They're increasing on a global level for the first time in these last years. Paragraph D. Now the truths of Daniel 12, if we understand the main, the broad strokes, and we all can, because they're quite straightforward. They're, they're not complicated to understand. But if we understand them, we end up in confidence. We end up with courage. Yes, we're girded for trouble. We see the trouble, but we're not, we're not overwhelmed by the trouble that's coming. The enemy wants the exact opposite. He wants the people of God to yield to fear. He wants the people of God to actually be offended at God's leadership. Because when they see the negative, if they don't have the biblical perspective, and the negative increases, many people, even in the church, are going to say, where's God at in such a time of crisis? The enemy wants the people confused. He wants the people deceived. Because when the Antichrist comes on the scene, he'll first appear as a man of peace, and he will appear to bring real solutions to the crisis in the nations, but there will be deception all the way through it, and there will be a moment of where things look like they've turned around suddenly. And a lot of people will be deceived by that. But the people that are rooted with a biblical understanding, I mean just a, of the main things, I don't mean real in-depth, nuanced parts of end-time prophecy, but the main themes. They won't be deceived by it. They won't be taken in to the compromise of it. Paragraph E. Now Jesus, I mean, people ask the question, are things going to get better, or are things going to get worse? And Jesus's answer is both. The wheat and the tares will mature together at the end of the age. The wheat, there will be, speaking of the spiritual response of the people of God, there will be a great revival. There will be a harvest of, I believe, a billion-plus souls coming to the kingdom. There'll be a deep commitment to righteousness, the power of the Holy Spirit moving through the church beyond even what they experienced in the book of Acts. The wheat will come to maturity, but so will the tares. That's darkness. That speaks of the danger associated with that darkness that's going to also come to maturity. And so, yes, the dark will get darker, and the light will get lighter. So when I hear the conversation in the culture and in the church, where are things going? We don't have to be confused and perplexed. Again, intimate details of exactly when, what, and where different things will happen. We don't have that kind of information. But we know the broad strokes of where things are going. It is going to get way worse. Beloved, it's never going to be like it was before, ever again. We need to settle that. Meaning, some people think, well, we're kind of in a difficult time, you know. You know, the terrorism is increasing. Economic problems are increasing. Darkness is, I mean, now being legislated by governments. Immorality is. And all these kinds of negative trends are happening. People are thinking, well, maybe in a few years it'll all turn around. I want to assure you of this. The darkness is going to increase and become more intense. It will never be like the 50s and the 60s and the 70s and the 80s. Those days are gone forever. So we wait in vain for, well, let's get through this next window, and then it will get back to normal. It will never get back to normal. And if we settle that in our heart, and we have a right picture of the future, we can cooperate with the Lord with confidence, with courage, with understanding. We know where this thing is going. And again, it's an amazing privilege to be alive in this generation. Be a lot of challenges. Be the most glorious generation, the generation the Lord returns. Again, it's my opinion. We're in the early days of that. It'll be the most violent generation, the most dangerous generation, the most glorious generation, the most powerful generation, the most important generation. All of these coming together in one time frame. It's not a time for the body of Christ to be passive. It's not a time for the body of Christ to be business as usual. Those days really are over. And a lot of believers haven't sorted that out. They haven't figured that out yet. And they're just imagining they're going to do the next 10 years like the last 10 years, and that's not going to work. The next 10 years are going to be more resistance, more darkness, more deception, more seduction everywhere through the culture. But more people saying yes to Jesus. More revelation of the glory of God. More signs and wonders. More people coming to the harvest. I mean, it's intense both directions. But it's a bad day for the half-and-half believer, for the casual believer, because the casual believer, they're going to get on fire or they're going to deny the Lord and backslide. And the great falling away the Bible talks about, and I have the verses here right here in the handout. We might not get to them. I believe that that great falling away, that period has already begun. I think that it's over some decades that that period continues, but I believe that the end time falling away is already just beginning. Not that there's a key date in it, but it's beginning. I believe that the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage and then to put it in law in the way that it's systematically going to be enforced through our culture was one of the most significant days of escalation, acceleration that will lead to the falling away of many people who profess loyalty and faith in Jesus. Many will look back to that day where the escalation started and increased in a very, very discernible way. Not that it began there, but that's the point of escalation. Paragraph D. I'll just say it again. This is a time where the enemy wants to bring the people of God into fear. Wants to bring the people of God into offense towards God's leadership, into confusion, deception, and compromise. But we don't need to be. Paragraph G. Under the Lord's leadership, He's creating, though he's letting the evil escalate. The escalation of evil, this unprecedented increase of darkness, and this unprecedented increase of Holy Spirit activity and light, the two together is creating the optimum environment for the most people to say yes to Jesus at the deepest levels of love. Say, well, Lord, why are you letting the negative increase? Because it's in the contrast and in the collision of the two that many believers will get off the fence, and they'll go, I'm going all the way. There's no other place of safety but a wholeheartedness. Laodicean, casual Christianity, kind of Jesus, kind of part of our life vision, but not really central. But he's kind of there on the side. That kind of Christianity will never ever empower and strengthen people for the days that are yet coming ahead. Ten years from now, far more serious than now in terms of trouble. Ten years after that, far more serious yet again. Well, paragraph H. We'll get to the verse that Matthew chapter 24. Now, you might not grasp, you might not see it at first reading, but what Jesus is saying here in Matthew 24 verse 15, what he's saying, I'm going to tell you what he's saying, and then we're going to read it. He's saying in essence, go study Daniel chapter 12. That's what he's saying. The only vision in the Old Testament of the end times, the only vision given to a prophet that Jesus identifies expressly, directly, is Daniel chapter 12. And he's saying, go learn that one. And that's why we're looking at it today. Because part of our assignment as a spiritual family is to be faithful messengers. To be forerunner messengers. And I believe that that assignment is given to thousands and thousands of ministries across the earth. To understand the good and the bad trends from the biblical point of view, and to make them clear, to interpret them, and to announce them in a way that people can adjust their expectation of the future. So again, they're not only optimistic, so then they're disillusioned by the trouble. And they're not only pessimistic to where they're, they're not, they have escapism and isolation. They draw back and kind of hunker down and hide in a cave till the Lord returns. But they get both sides, and they have confidence and courage. And part of the forerunner message and ministry is to call others into that confidence. And I believe the Lord is stirring up thousands of ministries across the earth. They might use different terminologies to take this forerunner messenger, I mean this forerunner message, this message of what is coming, so that we can readjust our picture of the future. We're sober about the trouble and confident about the victory. We get it, and we're moving forward with courage in our heart, and we're not vulnerable to the offense and the fear that the people without this knowledge are so vulnerable to. I mean, we're always can be tempted by those things, but we're not, we're not in the place of vulnerability that the people that have no knowledge. And many of the church have no knowledge. They have a very non-biblical position. It's this, things will take care of themselves then, I'll worry about it then. That is a profoundly non-biblical view of the end times. Jesus and the Apostles warned expressly, if you don't understand what's happening, beware lest you're weighed down by sins and compromise in that day. Beware lest you're weighed down by the offense and the deception. Jesus and the Apostles both described a great falling away in the end of the age. Things won't take care of themselves. Yeah, all those big events will happen, whether we like it or agree with them or know it, but our personal lives, our families, our loved ones, it really matters if we have a right expectation about what's coming. And again, I mean just in the broadest sense. We want to know what the Bible emphasizes. Again, the Bible gives a lot of details and nuances. We don't have to know all that, but we need to know what the Bible emphasizes, and there's no place that says it in my opinion more clear, more precise than Daniel chapter 11 and Daniel chapter 12. Well here in Matthew 24, Jesus points to Daniel 11 and 12. Here's what he says. When you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, parentheses, whoever reads that Daniel 12 prophecy, let him take time to understand it. That's what the Bible teaches right here. Because right after that, the greatest hour of trouble, the great tribulation breaks forth, but again the greatest revival as well. Now Jesus uses this cryptic phrase, the abomination of desolation. It's actually a quite simple what it means, but it's important that we are familiar with this term. The only time this term was used in this exact way was by Daniel in this one vision, Daniel 11 and 12. Nowhere else in the Bible is this phrase used. So when Jesus says, when you see the abomination of desolation, he's saying go to the one place in the scripture that describes the events associated with it. Get familiar with what happens in that time frame. Now the abomination of desolation, the word abomination means, in essence, a real horrendous evil, a terrible, terrible evil. There's a abomination that's going to come upon the world, say something unprecedented in its evil and in its darkness. It's demonic inspiration. It's an abomination to God. And this abomination, when it's in place, it will lead to desolation. So you could read the phrase, the abomination that leads to desolation. Desolation is great trouble. So you can say, when you see the great evil that leads to the great trouble, then know you're in that time frame. But my point now isn't so much to emphasize the abomination of desolation, but it's to use this phrase to locate the vision Jesus was pointing the body of Christ to. Because again, the only place in the scripture this phrase is used exactly two times in one vision, Daniel 11 and 12. Jesus is saying, go see what Daniel said. Understand what will happen in that time frame. Now the great evil, the great abomination, will be the Antichrist going into the temple in Jerusalem, declaring himself to be God. Well, that's an abomination, but it gets worse than that. It's not just that he declares to be God. Many people have declared to be God. That's an abomination, but this is unique. Because he will have a power base in military, political, the legal, uh, I mean the power over legislation, economics, that he will enforce the whole world to worship him as God, and he will use all of his resource to try to enforce the whole world. Now the whole world won't do it. Matter of fact, there'll be a harvest of all nations, every tribe and every tongue at the same time. That'll be the greatest harvest. I'm believing God, like many, many are, for over a billion souls at that time. But the abomination is a man who declares to be God, and at the threat of death, demands everyone in the earth to worship him as God. God says, that's the great abomination. And that's the image of the beast, and the mark of the beast. We know about that in Revelation 12, uh, 13. I have the verses there in the notes. The book of Revelation describes it. The mark of the beast and the image of the beast, that's the abomination, but it leads to great desolation. But the point I really want to make is, it isn't so much to talk about that one event, though it's very significant. But I want to point to the vision of which that one event was described twice by Daniel. One vision, the only place this term was used. So we go back to Daniel 11 and 12, and we say, what is it Lord, that you want us to see, and to understand, and to be prepared in our heart for the increase of negative, but to have confidence with the increase of positive? Now notice here, before we go on, Daniel chapter 24, I mean, uh, Matthew 24, verse 15. When you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel, and you only, again, you see it in chapter 11 and 12, one vision. Here's the phrase, whoever reads that vision, and we're gonna read a little bit of it in a minute. Here's what the scripture says, whoever reads that vision, let them take, make it a priority to understand it. When he says, whoever reads it, let them understand, he's saying, go back and read Daniel 11 and 12, where the abomination of desolation is set forth. Make it a priority to understand what's going to happen in that time frame. Because it will affect the way you respond. You'll either respond in fear, and offense, and compromise, or you'll respond in peace, and confidence, and courage, if you understand what's coming down. So let's, uh, look at page two of the notes. Top of the page. We're gonna look a little bit at that vision. We're gonna read a little bit of it. Now my goal today isn't to break down all the dimensions of that vision. My goal today is to convince you of the importance of that vision. Because if it's the only vision that Jesus actually identified and pointed the church to, again, Jesus believes in all the visions in the Bible. I mean, he, all the end time visions. He believes in all of them, but he goes, this one's particularly important. So if you walk out of this service today, and you go, I'm gonna know Daniel 11 and 12. I'm gonna go out of my way to understand what's gonna happen in that final time frame. Then this has been a successful time. You walk out here, say, I don't really know those chapters, but I'm going to. May take me a while, but I'm going to. Then I say this was a good time, a good meeting today. But also what I want to do is I want to leave you with seven broad stroke major trends of what's going to happen. Several of them are very negative, and several of them are very positive. So that it forms our picture, so our right expectation. We're girded for trouble. We're braced for trouble. But we have confidence in victory, and we're clear about it. So we can take that message to prepare others, so that they're not going to fall away in fear, and offense, and confusion, and compromise, and deception, and all these things that will happen if they don't know where things are going. The devil will twist it all the time. I mean just, you're getting it right now in the church, so many views and ideas. And I mean we're talking about not all the nuanced details, the broad strokes of what the angel told Daniel. This is, it's straightforward. It's very clear. We don't need to be confused about it. Paragraph J. I want to point out here, Daniel 11 and 12, two chapters, but it's one vision. Meaning it was hundreds of years later, they put a division, a chapter break between it. I mean the angel didn't stop at the end of chapter 11 and go, okay, let's take a little coffee break. He, it was one conversation. There was no break in the action at all. So you want to read both of them together. Both chapters, chapter 11 and chapter 12, and you'll find the phrase, I want you to pay attention, you'll find it twice, the abomination of desolation. Matter of fact, it's at the very beginning of the vision as it pertains to the end time, and it's at the very end of it. It's bookends it, it brackets it. In chapter 11 verse 31, it starts off, the abomination of desolation. Chapter 12 verse 11, it ends. There's a bracket on both ends, and Jesus is saying, that's the text, that's the passage I want you to know, between those two references of the abomination of desolation. Jesus can say, I made it crystal clear to you. That's what I want you to understand. Well, we're gonna look, paragraph K, Daniel chapter 11, 31 to 35. I, I have it just kind of a little portion, not the whole thing. Daniel, the mighty angel that's visiting Daniel, gives him a description of that time frame. Then, a few moments later, he re, he gives him another description, and the two descriptions we're gonna look at, just real quick. You put them two together, and you have these seven trends that are very, very obvious. So in the one experience, the one vision, the mighty angel explains the events, the major trends, twice. Again, you put them together. Some of the language is similar, some of the language is different, but they overlap. They're describing the same time frame, and the same events, but using different language, and the two different descriptions, to get, to elaborate, to give more clarity. Well, let's look at it. Daniel 11, verse 31. They shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there, there's the Jerusalem temple, the abomination of desolation. So this is the first verse, it starts. Now, pay attention. This is the passage Jesus referred to. Says, here's what's gonna happen in that generation, in that time frame. The people that know their God, they'll be strong. Not filled with compromise, not wavering, not cowering before the trouble. Strong in their spirit, and they'll carry out great exploits. That's miracles, signs, and wonders. Beloved, those strong people are weak and broken people, like us. They're not strong, because in the natural, they are unusual. They're strong, because the grace of God. They will experience it, at a measure beyond, any time in history. The body of Christ will walk in strength. I mean, weak, broken, fearful, timid people, like us. Prone to quit, prone to distraction, prone to discouragement. I mean, folk, humans. They're gonna be strong. I have my name on this. It's not a temperament. He's not talking about a temperament. He's talking about the power of grace. I look at that, I go, good. I'm putting my name, on that verse, because I love you, I put your name on that verse. And I put a bunch of my other buddies around the world on that verse. I go, that's us. All over the earth, the body of Christ, they will be strong, and they'll know God. They'll do miracles. That's a good beginning. This is in the time frame, when the abomination of desolation takes place. Wow. Gonna be mighty. The church will be mighty. There'll be a great falling away, but a great in gathering. Now, notice this, as well, before I continue with this passage. That, the events, and the activities, that come to fullness, when the Lord returns. Because these events will come to fullness, that the full measure is when Jesus returns in the sky at the second coming. But those events that come to fullness, described here, they are already happening now, and they're increasing. The negative ones, and the positive. They've already begun, the spirit of those events. They're only in part, but they're increasing. The negative is increasing, and the positive is increasing. But when the Lord returns, it's going to come to fullness. So, it's not an issue of nothing happens, then the Lord appears, and then it all happens one day. These are trends, for generation will be increasing. Negative and positive, both of them will be steadily increasing. We're in that time frame, I believe, and I don't believe we will ever go back to the way it was before. Never. I'm going to talk about the negative. Won't lighten up. The negative is going to get worse, and the positive is going to get stronger in a greater measure. Well, verse 32, the people that know their God, they'll be strong. They'll do great exploits. They'll do miracles. Verse 33, those of the people of understanding, they will instruct many. Their understanding of the end time plan of God, will end up, God will anoint it, and many will receive it. Many will receive it. Not just a little, little ragged remnant, kind of on the hillside, waiting for God, hidden in a cave. Many will say yes, and they will receive the insight that God's messengers, I mean, and God again, thousands of ministries, the Lord is blowing on, breathing on them, and saying, collectively, you will affect millions in the earth. Millions. This message is going to be received. Many will say yes. But, he goes, know this, verse 37, when they fall, know that even the great increase of understanding is going forth, and it's anointed, and many are receiving it. Know this, many will fall. And fall doesn't mean fall in sin. That's not what this is talking about. It means martyred. There will be a season of unprecedented number of martyrs in that hour. So, we don't need to look at the future and say, I hope it doesn't happen. It's going to happen. But, we understand God's leadership in it. I don't believe most believers will be martyred, but I believe there'll be a larger number than any time in history. The percentage will be highest, and the number will be highest, greatest, but I don't believe the majority will be martyred. But, I believe the majority of the body of Christ will be impacted by the martyrdom, the numbers, because every believer will have to decide, am I in this thing? It won't be a reality check. Am I in this thing with Jesus enough to where I would give my life? Everyone will have to, in their heart, sort that out, and a lot will say no, and they'll fall away, and a lot will say yes, and they'll go on to a radical life of encounter with the Lord. He says, verse 35, he goes, don't be confused. Even some of the people of understanding, and again, I believe that God's going to raise up thousands of ministries with a forerunner understanding. He goes, some of the most prominent they will be martyred, too. So, don't think that if they're anointed and mightily used of God, that they won't have trouble, because, remember, the apostles in the first century, almost every one of them were martyred, and they were powerfully anointed of the Lord, but still martyred. He goes, but God's going to use this, the mighty angel says. God's going to use the martyrdom of these powerful ministries, some of them men and women of understanding, and it's going to purify the rest of the body of Christ. Because, when the larger numbers of the body of Christ see some of these anointed, deeply, and men and women that encounter the Lord in a deep way, they look at them bold, fearless before death. It will put courage in the rest of the body of Christ. They'll look at them, and they'll say, that woman, she didn't flinch. She believes in the resurrection. This is real. If she believes it, I believe it, and it will cause purity, and it will cause radical obedience and inspiration to go straight to the body of Christ. The devil overplays his hands, because it's going to cause a purity and a refining, and a radical commitment will be in the downside of this martyrdom of which the enemy is orchestrated. Okay, let's go on to the next paragraph, Daniel chapter 12. It's a moment later. It's a moment later. The angel says to Daniel, let me tell you again what I just told you. So, the angel gives him the overview again. Uses some similar terminology, and a couple times different terminology, but for the same point. And then, at the end of the handout, which we're not going to get to, I put them together. I put the two descriptions together, so we see the three or four negative points, and the three or four positive points, and so we have a right picture, so we have courage and confidence, and we have clarity, so we can get other people into courage and confidence, so they're not tricked by a distorted view of over optimistic, or distorted view of over pessimistic, but they have the biblical view. Well, let's read the second description, the second overview of the events that are going to take place, positive and negative, in the generation of which the abomination of desolation takes place. Verse 1, chapter 12, at that time, talking about the end times, the generation the Lord returns, Michael, the archangel, will stand up. Now, what this verse means, that Michael, and we find from other verses, which I have on the notes here, Michael and his angels, they become, when it says he stands up, they have a far greater involvement and activity in the affairs of the earth, meaning there'll be a multiplying of angelic encounters, and angelic visitations, and angels breaking in to help. There's going to be a tremendous increase of the angelic ministries. He says, at that time, Michael will stand up. That's good. But the mighty angel says, but remember, Daniel, tell them, it's going to be the worst trouble in history. The most power, in terms of the glory of God in the church, but the most trouble, the most resistance. So don't confuse the two. They'll both happen together. But, be aware, at this time, deliverance is guaranteed, victory assured. The people of God win forever. There is no question. The end is already determined. He goes on to say, verse two, the mighty angel's talking to Daniel, those who sleep, the martyrs, those who sleep in the dust are talking about the people who died, not only martyrs, but that's the point of emphasis here, the martyrs. They lost everything. The angel goes, no. They will awake. The martyrs will come back to life. They'll have physical resurrected bodies. They will shine forever in the glory of God. Everything they lost, they will fully recover beyond anything they could imagine. They will receive so much more than what they lost, and the martyrs will see a full recovery of everything they lost, because they would not back away from the truth. As a matter of fact, not only will they recover everything they lost, their very beings, their resurrected physical bodies will shine in the glory of God, beyond anything they could imagine, because of their faithfulness to the Lord. He goes, nobody will be disappointed at the end of the story. When all the information is clear, it will be very, very clear they made the right choice, with no regrets whatsoever. What a glorious reality. Now Jesus quoted, Jesus quoted verse 1 and verse 3. I have it in the notes here. You can find the references. He quoted this passage of Daniel. Jesus was really into Daniel chapter 11 and 12. He spoke it in Matthew 24. He spoke it in Matthew 13. He says, go back to that Daniel 12 passage. Whatever you do, make sure you get that one clear. So, that's what we want to do. Go on, verse 3. And the wise, not only will they shine brightly, they'll turn many to righteousness. They'll turn many unbelievers to Jesus. That's the great harvest. And they'll turn many Christians that have unsettled issues in their lives, some in compromise, some stuck in bondage. They hate their compromise. These messengers that are wise, that refuse to back away, they refuse to be intimidated by darkness. They will be used for the recovery of many in the church, will be set free and liberated and turn to righteousness. And many unbelievers will turn to righteousness. So there'll be a great harvest in the lost and a great revival in the church. Many, not a few, beloved. The church isn't going to kind of dwindle down and a few little folks hanging on to the end. Oh Lord, quick, quick. No, the angel says, go tell them Daniel. Many, many will say yes to the Lord with all their heart. Many are going to hear the message and say yes to it. In verse 10, many will be purified. Many of them will, not a few. Well, let's look at Roman numeral 2. Now, obviously we're not going to go through this, but I just want to show you at the bottom of page 2, I just want you to see the seven terms. I put the two descriptions, Daniel 11, description 1, Daniel 12, description 2, the same angel, the same vision. The term abomination of desolation, the only two times that term is used in the Bible besides the lips of Jesus, it brackets these two descriptions. So Jesus is saying, what's in between those two references of the abomination of desolation? Study it. Know it. Let him who reads that vision take pains to understand it. Take time, search it out. Talk about it. Be clear about it. It's not confusing, but we have to be anchored in it. Now, we got to resist this rhetoric, some of it's sincere, but nonetheless, it's unhelpful rhetoric. Then it doesn't really matter. It'll take care of itself. Beloved, it really matters because many will fall away from the faith because they will have a wrong expectation. They will get offended at the Lord and seduced by darkness and deceived by a few positive turns of events that are under the hands of the antichrist and they won't know that it's a deception. It really matters that we get this. Things don't take care of themselves. Number one, there will be a time of trouble. The angel went on to say a time like no other time in history. It will be unique in its intensity. Look at number one under paragraph eight. Jesus quotes this very verse. I mean Jesus quotes. He says there'll be a time of tribulation like no other time in history. He's actually quoting Daniel 12 verse 1. This trouble number two will have martyrdom. This trouble number three, there will be a falling away, a great falling away. Millions. It's already started. In my opinion, it has already started. Even in the last couple of years, there's an escalation of this confidence to compromise. This confidence to challenge the word of God. This arrogant boldness. Young and old alike, but you see it all over college campuses. This arrogant confidence. You see it in seminaries with professors to challenge the word of God and to imagine they get it better than the bible does. It's like this thing has escalated in the last five years. It's it's growing so fast. Don't buy into it. It's a deception. A great falling away. Paul said it. Second Thessalonians. He goes before the day of the Lord, before the Lord returns, there will be a great falling away. Look what it says in first Timothy 4. I think this is very telling. First Timothy 4 verse 1. We're talking about the great trouble that's coming. Paul said the spirit explicitly says. The spirit emphasizes this prophecy. I mean the spirit doesn't need to emphasize anything. If the spirit says it, it's done. But Paul took it up a notch. He goes not only did the spirit say it, the spirit really emphasized it. Like wow, what does that mean when the spirit explicitly says it? He goes don't miss this one no matter what. In the last days, there'll be a departing from the faith. Be a global phenomenon. It'll be a distinct phenomenon. It'll be really clear to watch. I believe that has already begun. They'll give heed to deceitful spirits, doctrines of demons. They'll have doctrines. They'll use the bible. They'll be inspired by darkness without knowing it and they'll twist and distort the scripture. But they'll have a boldness and an arrogance in doing it. They won't know they're being deceived by a demon. Look at this verse 3. Paul says this 2,000 years ago. He goes, let me tell you how far this is going. This falling away, this deception will go to such a degree. They will actually make marriage illegal. They will forbid it. Not everywhere. 2,000 years ago, Paul prophesied of the great apostasy. It was related to the idea of the institution of marriage would be attacked on a global level and they would actually make marriage illegal places and they're talking about that all around the world right now. 10 years ago, unheard of. Paul said watch it. When they do that, pay attention. You're in that time frame when they start forbidding marriage where a great apostasy is happening. Paragraph 2, the second trend. God's people will be delivered. The third trend. There will be an awareness. There'll be an emphasis on the resurrection and eternal rewards. Right now most believers believe in the resurrection and eternal rewards, but they don't they don't think much about it. They think more about their ministry open doors or their business open doors or how hard their life is now. Most believers believe in the resurrection and eternal rewards, but it doesn't enter into their thinking much. It's going to change. The reality of the resurrection, eternal rewards is going to be prominent because there's going to be an anchor where people say why not risk everything in obedience because of the worthiness of who he is and his generosity. He's not returning at all. I mean we do it for the Lord, but you'll never outgive Jesus. Never. No matter how much you try. Whatever you give him, he'll give you back a hundredfold every time. And more besides. Paragraph Dean, the fourth trend. Supernatural miracles. They'll do great exploits. Michael will stand up. The angels will be far more involved. I mean the angels are involved right now. I mean if the veil was lifted we'd see angels in this room, but we're talking about angelic activity manifest in the natural realm. The spirit of prophecy poured out. Now we know that that began on the day of Pentecost, but beloved, the prophecy is that every single believer would operate in dreams and visions. This prophecy wasn't completely fulfilled on the day of Pentecost when 120 people were touched by the spirit. Everybody who names the name of Jesus will operate in dreams and visions in the spirit of prophecy. There's a supernatural dimension to the church that's going to increase. Number five. God will release an anointing of revelation on the word of God related to the end time scriptures. And the idea is that God wants his people informed on what's happening in this most significant generation. Beloved, there's a hundred and fifty chapters in the bible of which the primary subject is the end times. A hundred and fifty chapters. If you add up the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 89 chapters. Almost 90 chapters about Jesus's first coming. 150 chapters in the same bible by the same holy spirit about the same Jesus coming back to rule the nations. 150 chapters. I'm not advocating you need to know all those. But God's going to raise up men and women. They're going to get it. They're going to get the end time plan. And we're giving the basics right here in Daniel 12. They're going to get it, but they're called wise. Not because they understand everything in life, but because they're wise enough not to back away. Not to be intimidated. They're not going to draw back. They're taking a stand no matter what it costs them. They'll bear the stigma. They'll be ridiculed. They'll be persecuted. But because they stand, they're called wise and they get where this thing's going and they say it boldly. They say it tenderly. They say it biblically. Paragraph six. Great harvest. Every tribe and every tongue, every nation. Many will turn to righteousness. I believe a billion plus are coming into the kingdom. Many unbelievers will turn to righteousness. And number seven. Not only will unbelievers turn to righteousness, the church will turn to righteousness. Right now, there's a tremendous amount of looseness in the body of Christ. I mean, I don't know that it's ever been worse than this. Maybe it has and I just don't know. The confidence of which people live in immorality. The confidence of which they slander and divide and they don't use their money or their time in a way that expresses God's leadership in their life. They use terms grace of God and free grace of God, free grace of God and cast off his leadership in many areas of their private personal lives and the way they carry their heart. I got good news for you. Many. Look at it. Daniel 12. Many will turn to righteousness. Not a few. Many. Millions will say, I want to be radical for God. Many. Verse 10. Will be purified. Many will. You know, the great harvest is mostly going to be young people. Someone says, how do you know? The demographics of the earth. Most of the earth is young people. Most of the earth is young and most of the earth is poor. So guess what? The great harvest is going to be poor young people. It is. Not all of it, but the vast majority. Right now, God is moving on young people. The beginning of this, we're already seeing it. There's more and more young people Really taking hold of purity and righteousness, but there's a huge number of young people that profess Jesus that are living Loosely, they're loose about their morality. They're loose about their money. They're loose about their time They're loose about their words and the Lord says do not despair. I'm going to have a company of young people Hundreds of millions in the earth. They will love purity and they will go all the way through Don't lose sight of where this thing is going Telling Daniel And they'll know God They'll know their God. I put that under the righteousness They'll know him because Jesus said if you love me, you'll obey me. You give your heart to me They'll know and love God. The first commandment will be Established in first place and the Lord will come for a company of people a billion strong Come Lord Jesus They're crying out the spirit of the bride and he will come to them and he will come for them And they will be together forever and beloved we win and that's the message we're proclaiming to the nations Amen, and amen, let's stand