Michael’s Deliverance and the End Times
1 “At that time Michael will rise up, the great prince who watches over your people, and there will be a time of trouble, such that has never been since the nations began, until this time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.
5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and there stood two others, one on each side of the river bank. 6 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, ‘How long will it be to the end of these wonders?’
7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be ‘for a time, times, and a half’ and when they have finished shattering the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.
8 I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, ‘My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?’
9 He said, ‘Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many will purify themselves, and make themselves spotless, and be refined, but the wicked will act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.’
11 From the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there will be 1,290 days. 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the 1,335 days.
13 But go your way until the end, for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.’ ”