Daniel 12:13

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

He said, “Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

Pray without ceasing.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

“The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.

Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.

So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”

“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people;

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

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.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.