What To Do About End Time Prophecy

In the prophetic Book of Daniel we learn that during the end times, “knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4) but also that “none of the wicked shall understand” (Daniel 12:10).

Knowledge without understanding. Clouds void of water, gathering together en masse, but unable to produce rain or grace.

We also learn that many, “shall run to and fro” (Daniel 12:4).

Highly educated and in a hyper state of being, but lacking understanding and direction. In short, these learned folks are running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

I see so many people, good people, Christian people worry and fret over the end times. They look for signs and wonders that correspond with the foretold future events. While they look into the distance, they neglect looking at the present.

Daniel learns of the resurrection of the dead, some 600 years before Christ.

“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2).

But see what Daniel was told to do once the future end times were revealed to him.

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end” (Daniel 12:4)

“But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days” (Daniel 12:13)

The future is revealed to Daniel. A frightful, awe filled, jaw dropping future. Resurrection of the dead? Really? And what is Daniel told to do? Don’t worry about it. Close it up, “shut up the words, and seal the book”.

And do what then?

“Go thy way till the end”. Be present in the present with Christ. God is in all times, all of the time. But we only have the here and now. The now is our time. The here is with God. We can not live in the future, nor the past. We can only live in the now. So we are to “go thy way”, the way of Christ. He is the way, the truth and the life. We are to go His way, the way, “till the end”.

We don’t need to look for the end times. The end times, in due time, will find us. We are, however, to continue onward in, and with Christ.

 “Stand in thy lot at the end of the days” is when our life as a child of God will be made complete. Our reward, our “lot” is Jesus Christ, not pearly gates or streets of Gold. Jesus Christ is our portion.

This is when all forms of our being will be complete and one. Our lot, our inheritance is Jesus Christ. We walk with Him now so we can rest and be with Him forever.

“The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him” (Lamentations 3:24).

“Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words” (Psalms 119:57).

“I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living” (Psalm 142:5).

“For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance” (Deuteronomy 32:9).

Bill Hitchcock