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CPT: Those who have understanding will make it through the final time of distress and be resurrected to eternal life.
Purpose: Encourage the church about God’s eternal plan.
CPS: God is bringing his people to his eternal future.
Introduction
God has an eternal plan for you.
I want to encourage you with that this morning.
As we’ve gone through the book of Daniel together, we’ve been reminded that God is in control.
And in this last sermon from the book of Daniel, I want you to know that God has an eternal future plan for you.
That all of the tribulations and trials that we face, they are hard, but they are temporary.
What matters is what is eternal.
God is bringing his people to an eternal future with him.
Heaven is as much a place as Chicago or Paris.
It is a destination.
It is a place.
We make heaven to mean different things.
I once met someone with the name Heaven.
We say things that are very pleasing or wonderful as being heavenly.
There are songs in pop culture like Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door or Tears in Heaven.
People have different ideas about heaven.
You’ll go to a funeral, and they’ll say something like, “So and so is looking down on us now from heaven.”
Intrinsically, people know that there is something strange about death, and that there must be an eternal place somewhere else.
The Bible says a lot about our eternal future.
We want to understand heaven according to the world’s standards.
We want a biblical understanding about our future.
What does the Bible say about our eternal future?
That’s where we will be in our last sermon from the book of Daniel.
Scripture Reading: Daniel 12
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The world is heading towards a time of distress.
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Text: Daniel 12:1, 10-12
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The time of distress such as never has occurred
Daniel receives a description from the angel that the world is heading towards a time of distress like never before.
It is a time of distress that nations have never experienced.
It says this in Daniel 12:1:
This angel Michael is an angel who watches over the people of Daniel, the nation of Israel.
This nation is about to undergo a time of distress that they have never known.
There’s more of a description about this time period in verses 10 through 12. Daniel 12:10-12:
The angel is describing a time period with some definitive dates.
Now, while not getting to deep into the numbers, there is a time period, a time of distress, that the angel is describing here called the tribulation period.
Description of the tribulation period
The tribulation is this time period of seven years, a period between the rapture of the church and the descent of Christ to the earth at his second coming.
The middle of this tribulation period is marked by what Daniel describes as the abomination of desolation which is set up in a new Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
The Lord describes this point in the tribulation period in Matthew 24:15-22:
The Lord highlights a few things here about this tribulation period within Israel that Daniel also shows:
This will be a time of distress for the people of Israel (Dan.
12:1; Matt.
24:21) that will be like nothing that the world has ever known.
This time of distress will be so drastic that no one would survive it unless the time period was not purposefully cut short (Matt.
24:22)
We see the Lord cutting that time period short in the time period that he has stated.
All those written in the book will escape
In Daniel 12:1, he says that “all your people who are found written in the book will escape.”
What is this book?
The New Testament describes the book of life at least seven times.
It is mostly described in the book of Revelation, although Paul also talks about it in Philippians 4:3, where he says “the rest of my coworkers whose names are in the book of life.”
The Lord will acknowledge those written in the book of life before the Father and the angels (Rev.
3:5)
Names are written from the foundation of the world in the Lamb’s book of life (Rev.
13:8)
Those whose names are not written in the book of life will worship the antichrist during the tribulation (Rev.
17:8)
The book of life is open with other books.
People are judged by their works written in the book.
But it is only those whose names are written in the book of life escape eternal judgment.
(Rev.
20:12, 15)
During the tribulation, there are Jewish people who will turn to Christ.
They will turn to their Messiah, and their names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
The time of the tribulation period will be cut short, and Christ will return.
How is the period of the tribulation cut short?
What happens at the end of the tribulation period?
If God didn’t cut that time short, no one would survive.
But God does cut the time short through the return of Jesus Christ.
Look at Matt. 24:29-31:
The world is heading towards this time of the tribulation, where the world will be under the oppression and rule of the antichrist.
But that time will be cut short by the return of Christ to the earth.
He will come with power and great glory.
What does that mean for us?
It is a reminder that Jesus has the ultimate power.
There is a time of distress, and for many of us there have been times of distress for us personally in our lives.
But those times are cut short.
They come to an end.
The rule and reign of Jesus Christ is forever.
He is coming again.
Heading: We may not go through a tribulation period, but we do go through periods of tribulation and trials in our own life.
A friar from the 1500s said this,
In tribulation, immediately draw near to God with trust, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
In the tribulation, we see people draw near to God through faith in Christ.
That is instructive for us.
In your tribulations, in the trials that you are facing, draw near to God, trusting in Jesus, and he will get you through the worst of what you are facing.
The world is heading towards a time of distress.
Second,
God is bringing everyone towards a final resurrection and a final judgment.
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Many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake
Daniel receives this description of what will happen to people in the “time of the end” (Dan.
8:17, 19; 11:35, 40, 12:4).
Look at what is says in Daniel 12:2:
The human body is described as being formed from dust.
The human being is both a physical and spiritual creature.
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