The ending of history is going to be the Antichrist crushing the holy people.

And then they will become genuinely holy.

Their sin will be so deep, their destruction so utter, that they will look to their covenant

keeping God who will be faithful to

redeem them through the Messiah. There I'm Phil Johnson, your host. You may remember a TV show called Early Edition. The main character

found a newspaper on his doorstep each morning that actually offered tomorrow's headlines.

Well, imagine if you really knew tomorrow's news how

would that change the way you do things today? The way you schedule your time, the

way you spend your energies, the way you spend your money. Well as you've been seeing in

John MacArthur's study the future of Israel, you can look into the future and

when you do you'll see the God who controls the future and who will ultimately return to judge the world.

That's a great motivation for you to proclaim the gospel while there's still time.

And so with a motivating message on prophecies from the book of

Daniel, here is John MacArthur. Now in this final section, the Lord deals with Daniel and also with a couple of angels who express some

questions about the details of what is coming to pass. Even after all of the information of the book

there is still much mystery. But all of this revelation has managed to peak their

interest and they want more.

And so in the closing section from verse 4 to 13, the Lord clarifies some final features.

And even after the clarification leaves an abundant mystery for the future.

Now let's see these final words and we'll take them just as they flow in the text, move right on through.

First of all, the content sealed.

Secondly, the chronology set, then the confusion stated,

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