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questions at core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Jay calling in from Missouri. Jay,

what's your question for Adriel? Hey, Adriel.

I am calling about Daniel chapter 12, verse four.

And especially when it's talking about, he says, but you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end.

Many will go to and fro and knowledge shall increase.

And so does that mean that that's the time of the end? Because I see, I've never experienced in my life

such an increase in knowledge and an increase in travel. And I wanted to know what your

perspective was and all that. Hey, Jay, thank you for that excellent question.

So coming here to the end of Daniel and Daniel chapter 12, it's fascinating.

I mean, this is one of the great Old Testament prophecies about the resurrection of the body,

the hope of the life everlasting.

And then you have this kind of strange statement. Daniel is told,

okay, Daniel, shut the words and seal the book. This is going to be opened up at a later time.

And then that statement that you highlighted, many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall

increase. Now, I think the focus there is, you know, the fact that people are going to continue to be doing the things that they're doing.

You think of what Jesus says in Matthew 24 when he talks about the coming of his second coming, the coming of the Lord.

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