And so here we are passing through and the Bible tells what the future holds. And you've got Daniel silently listening to Gabriel for three chapters and finally breaks his silence in verse number eight. He says, and I heard, but I understood not. I didn't get it. He said, oh my Lord, what should be the end of these things? There are things that we don't understand. There are times that we don't understand. And so at such times, let's seek out knowledge. Let's seek out truth. Let's do what Daniel did. Let's do what the angel did and ask to know some things because the future awaits us as God's people. And it's a very exciting one. The Bible says that the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation. Welcome to Pulpit Power featuring Pastor Tony Skeving, Senior Pastor of Fargo Baptist Church in Fargo, North Dakota. Today's message was previously preached before a church audience. And now, here's Pastor Skeving. Let's take our Bibles please and turn once again to the book of Daniel in the 12th chapter. We have I believe 9 verses left out of 357 verses, imagine that. And we have I believe spent over 3 years studying the book of Daniel verse by verse and we're winding it down just another message or two left. we're going to be talking today about when we don't understand. We find something here in the text with Daniel that he just doesn't understand. He's perplexed by this and he asks for some clarification. Now, we've covered already verse 4 and we find the angel talking to Daniel, the angel Gabriel who says, "'But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and and knowledge shall be increased." Now notice he says to Daniel, shut up the book, seal this book here. And this is Gabriel talking and Daniel's now receiving the conclusion of what we've been looking at, all these 357 verses here. And it's time for him to finish writing on that scroll, to put that quill up, to blow on that ink, let it dry and then roll up that scroll because the revelation at this point is finished, this is it. But before God signs off, notice he gives us some hints about the last days. In verse number four, he mentions even to the time of the end. And then he says, many shall run to and fro. Folks, if I could describe the last 50 to 100 years, it's been a time of mobility, great increasing of mobility and folks running to and fro. How many have played on a pinball machine before? Been a long time for me. We used to take our kids to Happy Joe's on their birthday years ago. And so that's probably the last time I played pinball. But you know how it works there. Basically, there's this little iron ball in there that just... It's just bouncing around from one thing to the next. And we live in a day and age when folks are going to and fro. We become human pinballs. It's rush, rush, rush, rush, rush. And that takes its toll on us physically. We've talked about that already. You know, my grandkids and I watched a documentary here a while back on the Wright brothers. And of course, they are credited with inventing the airplane that really gave us all this mobility. showed their home and their neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio as little boys growing up, and they went up and down the street, and a lot of those houses are still there, basically a little over 100 years ago. And guess what? All of them had porches on them. And you say, why porches on houses of yesteryear and not so much today? Because people took time in the evening to sit down and have some fellowship. and talk with one another. And I tell you, we don't do that today. And I've gotten caught up in it. And I'm starting to rebel. I really am. I'm tired of it. I believe we need to build some porches on our front of the houses again. And maybe with that, it might be time to put away those video games. I mean, really? I don't think we need any more flashing lights. I don't think we need any more noise as it were. It's noisy enough today. And people are just all over the place and running to and fro. But also in verse number 4 it mentions here knowledge. shall be increased." Do we see that in the day and age in which we live in? Knowledge has exploded. I think I mentioned before, when I went in to get my first smartphone, I'd had a flip phone like you up to that time, and the guy said at AT&T, well, you need one of these smartphones. I go, well, what's so smart about it? And he said, well, ask it a question. I said, get out of here. No, ask it a question. So I did. I said, who won the 1987 World Series? And a little voice comes out and says, 1987 World Series was won by the Minnesota Twins over the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. And I'm going, this is crazy. Who won the 91 World Series? It tells me the same thing. And I'm going, this thing knows everything. And we have that all at our fingertips now. I'm telling you, the computer has changed our society dramatically. The internet has changed our culture beyond what we could imagine. And so we have all this knowledge increasing. And somebody says, well, pastor, Are we smarter today than they were in days gone by? I don't think so. I mean, it would look that way because of the increase of knowledge. But can you imagine Adam, the first man, God bringing him thousands of animals, he names every one of them and remembers their names. Folks, we're just building on past knowledge. That's all. We're just standing on the shoulders of the intellectual giants of the past and building upon their knowledge. But the sad truth is this, with the increase of knowledge, you would think we're getting wiser in the things of God, but with the increase of knowledge, We're witnessing a fading knowledge in the things of God, aren't we? It's getting worse and worse. Now, in 2 Timothy 3.1, the Bible says, know this also, that in the last days, perilous times shall come. So, in context we're talking about the last days, and it goes on to mention of men ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now, what's the truth? That's the $64,000 question. Well, Christ tells us in John 17, this book is truth. So, the bottom line is our Bible is truth, and we have people that are ever learning about everything but the Bible, but they're never able to come to the knowledge of the book. And it's part of the great apostasies we're experiencing in the last days. You know, that Pentecostalism and Charismatism and other isms are preaching that we are having a great awakening in the last days, a great revival. Well, I don't see that. I don't see that with my eyes. I see a compromise to where the bar has been so lowered that anyone can get over it. I'm a born again Christian too. Put her there, blankety blank. I'm a believer too. And we have this really low brand of Christianity and we call that a revival. It's not. So my eyes don't see it. And I don't see it as I read the Bible either, because the Bible says, let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first. We get a word apostasy from that. So that the second coming of Christ that day shall not come except there be a falling away first. And we are seeing that. And so we find that here's men and they're ever learning, they're never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. And we've gotten so clever and yet we've missed God. We've missed God. And you know, the lost can come up with some pretty clever stuff. A lot of learning, AI and things that are just amazing. But we find, number 5 that there are going to be knowledge increasing in the last days, but not biblical knowledge. Then we read in verse 5, Then I, Daniel, looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the and the other on that side of the bank of the river. Here we find Daniel finally reengaging in the narrative here, because since chapter 10, he's been all ears. It's been Gabriel talking to him. He's just kind of taken this down so that we'd have it today. now he's re-engaging and we find him mentioning here this river. I, Daniel, looked, and behold, there stood other two, one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. And last time we talked about that river being Hittikal part of the Euphrates system. And we find that back in chapter 10 verse 4. And where the whole thing got started. Daniel said, I was fasting, I was praying, I was concerned about the future of my people, and I was by the river Hittikal. So, we're assuming here in chapter 12 that it's the river Hittikal. Now, notice verse 5 introduces us to two men, I believe they're angels. Verse 5, Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the So, we've got two angels, two men, but there's a third person that just comes into the scene. And where did he come from? Nothing's really said to introduce him in verse 6. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, how long shall it be to the end of these wonders? So, there's a third man and he's different from the other two. He's not standing on the bank of the river. He's standing on the river. He's on the river. Now, who's this? Well, a few hints for us here, all right? There's really only one that can defy the laws of physics and gravity and water surface membrane and all that that he initially created, and that would be the Lord Jesus Christ. But also we get a hint in the New Testament. There's somebody we know that can stand on water, that can walk on water. Matthew 14 it says, and in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them walking on the sea. So we have that hint that this person, this messenger, this heralder is standing on the water, pretty good chance it's Jesus. But also we find that He's clothed in linen. See that in verse 6? And once said to the man, clothed in linen. You say is that a hint? Yes, because back in chapter 10 if you want to pay there really quickly. We find that as Daniel was doing another one of those fasts and trying to get a hold of God, he gets an appearance. And notice he says in verse 5, then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen. And we determine way back in chapter 10 this man is the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, in here in chapter 12 here's a scenario. In verse 5 we've got an angel on each side of the river. We have the Lord Jesus Christ upon the river, Hittikel. And we find a question blurted out simply, how long shall it be to the end of these wonders? At the end of verse number 6. What wonders? What wonders? Well, I believe they're asking about the Tribulation Period or the last half of the Tribulation Period that we know to be the Great Tribulation Period. And so, Daniel has been hearing about the events of the Great Tribulation Period. We've studied them up to this point. And the question is this. How long is that going to go on? When the time comes, this persecution of the chosen people of Israel, this oppression of the Jews, how long is that going to last? How long will that last? Well, look at verse 7, And I heard the man clothed in linen, that's Christ, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swear by him that liveth forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and a half. You say, well, how long is that? Well, I'm going to show you a few passages here to kind of add some light to it here, but let's just assign years to these times, okay? And so time is one year. Times would be two years. Half would be half of a year. And we're talking about three and a half years. You say, where do you get that? Because we've seen something already very similar to this. Now, I mentioned last time there's two very powerful, significant prophetic books in the Bible that kind of stand above the rest. I mean, there's some great prophetic books, but the book of Daniel would just be like way off the charts and so would the book of the Revelation. And we find in the book of Daniel, it covers centuries. It covers, actually, millenniums. It covers some stuff yet out front in the future, whereas the book of the Revelation really specifically covers a seven-year period, and just what we know to be the Tribulation period. So in the book of the Revelation, we see this in chapter 10. John sees this, he says, and the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth, lift up his hand to heaven and swear by him that liveth forever and ever. Does this sound familiar? So we have that angel standing there, lifting up his hands, taking an oath, swearing by him that liveth forever and ever. And so we find Christ doing the same thing in both books. about that 3 1⁄2 years? Well, we read this in Revelation 13, 5 of the false prophet, and there was given unto him, or the Antichrist, there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue 40 and 2 months. Now, you do the math here 42 months basically is 3 ½ years, 12 months in a year you've got 2 ½ or 3 ½ years here. Now we also read this in Revelation 11, the Bible says, American calendar, our 21st Century calendar has 365 days in it. But the Jewish calendar of this time had 360 days in it. So, if you divide that 360 into the 1260 you get exactly three and a half. So, once again we are talking about three and a half years. So, the There's these angelic beings back here in Daniel chapter 12, who are standing on each side of the River Hitticale. Daniel's been fasting for weeks here. And everybody is curious to know how long that Great Tribulation period is going to take. Daniel's curious, but I like the fact that the angels are also curious to know this. Did you notice that in verse six? And one said to the man clothed in linen. So you got one angel asking the Lord, which was upon the river, how long shall it be to the end of these wonders? Did you know that the workings of God with believers, with Israel, with the things of God are fascinating to angels? Did you know that? Angels are fascinated by what's going on, God's workings here on the earth. You know, down here we find people tuning in every night to entertainment tonight. What's going on in Hollywood? Who's divorcing who? What's the latest diva? And who's the latest diva? And what's the latest drama? And what's the latest drivel? And you know, here they are into that stuff, when really the angels are going, ho-hum, what's God up to? What are the workings of God? You say, how do you know that angels are interested in the workings of God? Well, I find it right here in Daniel 12, but I also find it over in 1 Peter 1. The Bible says unto us, speaking of the Old Testament prophets, did they minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, these are New Testament preachers now, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, notice this part, which things the angels desire to look into. Can you see the angels of heaven squinting and peering and using maybe binoculars to try and see what's going on down here and what we're up to? We find that's exactly the case here in Daniel chapter 12. You've got some angels asking questions. And I think we need to take a lesson from the angels, folks. I think we need to forget about all the drivel that's going on in this world right now. And you know, may I just stop and say that some of the posts I even see that are posted on social media by Christian people are disappointing. You know, some of the things they're following, some of the things they're into, I just say, why? They're not really wholesome. They're into worldly things. Things I really am glad I'm in the dark about. Things that really aren't on my radar and they don't need to be. I want to look into the things that angels desire to look into. that they're curious about. And I'll guarantee you one of them is the New Testament church and the workings of the New Testament church. I think we sell short what we have here as far as its worth and value to heaven. Because I find in Ephesians 5 the Bible says Christ loved the church, the local church, He gave Himself for it. Makes it pretty important. And I find this in Ephesians 3, unto Him be glory in the church, by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. You know, when a believer is more interested in worldly things, and even in New Evangelical Christian things than they are in a New Testament church. It may be that they're more backslidden than they realize. They could probably use a revival. These angels in Daniel wanted Bible truth. there's some 21st century believers who are just really out of it. And you see that and you say, is that possible? Yeah, it's possible. You know I find a guy in the Old Testament by the name of Jacob who would be renamed Israel and that name would go with the Jews up until today. Jacob is out in the middle of nowhere, he's sleeping and in this particular place and he has a dream and realizes it's the very door to heaven. He wakes up and he says, what? He goes, whoa, God is in this place. It's a door to heaven, I didn't know it. Well, I believe the day sadly is gonna come at the judgment seat of Christ when a believer is going to realize they were sitting in the middle of something big and they could have feasted on that and they were sacrificing the future on the altar of the immediate with all that worldly stuff that really they shouldn't have been tuned into. These angels were tuned into something that was important to heaven. And as they heard about all this persecution coming down on the Jewish people, they said, how long? How long? And I want to stay dialed into the right stuff and have that on my radar as well. I think the most interesting thing in the universe is what God is doing. And the angels were curious, and Daniel was curious, and Daniel had a ringside seat to it all. He's watching this revelation unfold, and he said, I'm curious. What is going to befall my people in the latter days? That's what this is all about. It's all about Israel. In fact, The whole end times thing, we have to keep it in perspective or we can get off doctrinally. The whole end times thing is about the Jews. And they're right in the middle of the news right now. I mean, what news you follow, you'd know that. So at the very core of the question, the angel they're asking here is the Jewish nation. How long is the Antichrist going to be able to whoop up on the Jewish people and able to oppress the chosen? And the answer, for three and a half years, for the last half of the tribulation period. Now, currently, we're even seeing a little foretaste of that with the anti-Semitism. We're even witnessing in our nation, I said last time, you know, it's been kind of a trickle in the past. It pops up and it gets poo-pooed right away. It's rampant right now. It's rampant right now. We have foolish people in this country who have more sympathy for terrorists than we do the chosen people of God. And boy, has that truth ever been distorted by the media. We had something for our senior saints here a few weeks ago. And we had actually a Jewish fella who's been there in the thick of that. Give us a clear picture of what really is going on over there. And it was very, very interesting. I'll just say this, the devil has been busy. devil's not going to stop. And so if it's going on now, the anti-Semitism, can you imagine what it's going to be during the last half of the Tribulation period? I mean it's going to be no holds barred. And minds are being prepared right now. We see that happening. So, at the end of verse 6, here's the question, how long shall it be to the end of these wonders? How long are the Jewish people going to have to put up with this until be in a punching bag here, and how much worse is it gonna get? That's a good question. You ever imagine how much worse it's gonna get, what this world is coming to? So they say, how long is this gonna go on? And they get their answer in verse seven. Daniel says, and I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swear by him that liveth forever, that it shall be for a time, times, half. So, notice he lifts up his hand and he swears it's going to be for three and a half years. By the way, that's a practice we do to this day, don't we? We put our hand on the Bible and you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and you go, where does that come from? It comes from the Bible. We find back in, I think it's Genesis chapter 14, Abraham does that. He lifts his hand up and he swears to God. We find in Deuteronomy 32 where Moses does the same thing, lifts up his hand and he swears to God. And that holding up of the hand kind of a thing is the ultimate in honesty. We assume somebody taking the stand and doing that to testify, it really authenticates that he's going to tell the truth because he's swearing by the highest authority in the universe. Now, if you're God already, like the man clothed in linen standing on the water is, you already got God the Son upon that water, who do you swear by? Well, we read this in Hebrews 6, "'For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself.'" So it's God saying, so help me God, because there's no higher authority than that. So here we have the Son of God swearing by God the Father. The angel of linen, Jesus Christ, is promising. that the woes of the Jewish people are going to go on for three and a half years. He doesn't just use one hand, he uses both hands. He lifts them up to heaven, and he makes that vow. That's what's going to happen. And God cannot lie, according to Titus 1-2. Now, we read on in verse number seven. All right, he held up his right hand and his left hand into heaven, and swear by him that liveth forever that it shall be for a time, times and a half, and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be fulfilled." That is very, very interesting. What does this mean? Scatter the power of the holy people. Well, who are the holy people? The holy people are the Jewish people. That's a reference to God's chosen there. What's this mean about scattering their power? I want to show you here, and you've got to listen carefully. What it's talking about is God finally breaking their will, their stubborn will. They have been digging in for millenniums now. rejecting their own Messiah. And Paul talked about that in Romans 9, Romans 10. And so what this is talking about, and I'm going to show you this at the end of verse 7, is God is going to finally break that resistance. They have been stiff-arming the Messiah since the trial of him, by Pontius Pilate. They said, crucify Him. And Pilate said, well, okay, it's not on me, it's on you. And in Matthew 27, then answered all the people and said, His blood be on us and on our children. And since that time, it's been a sad, sad millennium or two for the Jewish people. Now, let me just say this. God does nothing without purpose. Why the Tribulation Period? Why the Great Tribulation Period? What is its purpose? The purpose of the Great Tribulation Period, primarily, is to finally break the Jewish people. I want you to look carefully at verse number 7. It says, and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. That Hebrew word scatter there means to break and scatter, finally to break their will. It's going to finally happen at the end of the tribulation period. Their will will be broken. And that, my friend, will be the consummation of the ages. Time, as we know it, can stop. Really, that's all that's holding it up right now. We say, oh, this stuff the politicians are doing, you know, they got the power and the sway and they're determining all that. No, no, no, no. When the consummation of the ages is going to finally happen is when the Jewish people say, uncle, and they receive their Messiah. That is all that is holding it up right now. The great tribulation is for the Jews to bring them the end of themselves. And then we read in Romans 11, And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, Jesus, and shall turn away ungodliness and Jacob. That's what's going to happen. Finally, there is going to be a wholesale submission of the Jewish people to Christ, a bowing of the knee at that time, and all things are going to be put under the feet of Christ at that time. The Millennium can begin now. Eternity can begin. Now, that brings us to verse 8. In verse number 8, Daniel finally speaks up. He says, And I heard, but I understood not. Then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? When's it going to end? How's it going to end? Give me a date. Give me a time. Give me a month. Notice in verse number nine, And he, the Lord, said, Go thy way, Daniel. For the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Here we find the angels asking the question, and they're told three and a half years. But Daniel wants something a little more specific. When's the date? When's the century? When's the decade? When is the year? You know, there's something in the human heart that wants to understand. Well, let me just say that in the 21st century, we have a huge advantage. We don't really stop and we think about this, but here's Daniel in the dark. I mean, the whole last six chapters of the book of Daniel are prophetic and they're given in certain terms that at the time, as Daniel is hearing this and writing this down, it hadn't happened yet. And so he has no clue what this is talking about. It is so accurate, pinpoint accurate, that the scoffers believe it was written after it happened. And we looked at all of that stuff, people like Bernice, people like Seleucus, people like Ptolemy, people like Antiochus Epiphanes and Cleopatra, and all described, I mean perfectly, centuries before they were born. But at the time of Daniel, they had not been born. They had not played out. The Darius' and all these and Artaxerxes and so on, they weren't alive yet. So that stuff followed in time. But God was able to give it ahead of time because God knows the future. History is His story. And so we find out all of that stuff played out exactly the way God said it would, but as Daniel is hearing it here, it's puzzling. He doesn't get it. It's used in cloak language, so he doesn't really know exactly what this is all about. And so he asks this question in verse eight. He says, and I heard, but I understood not. Then said I, oh my Lord, What shall be the end of these things? We find Daniel interested in knowing something more specific because the future was interesting to him and it should be to us. Are you interested in the future? Are you interested in the second coming of Christ? Is that something you live in perspective of? I believe there is a special reward for Christian people who have that on their heart as they live out their lives now. I read this in 2 Timothy 4.8, Paul mentions henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, should give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." Did you catch that? There's a special reward, a crown for them who are looking for the second coming of Christ, who love his appearing. Will I receive that crown? Will you receive that crown? Are you one that is looking forward to that? I don't expect lost people to be looking forward to that. Lost people get up every day, kind of head down. They never look at the sky. They never acknowledge a creator. They never acknowledge a universe with no walls. They never acknowledge time that's always been and always will be. They just live for the here and now. But a believer, we ought to have the attitude this could be the day. and we're looking for his appearance. You know, even lost people know there's weird stuff going on in the world right now. I was talking to a preacher here this last weekend, and he told me about a young man, no less, probably in his 20s, not even saved, but says, I'd be surprised if this goes on for more than a few more years. I mean, that's even the lost looking at what's going on. So what does the future hold? I mean, forget the latest dumb album by the latest diva, all right? It's as shallow as a birdbath. What does the future hold? What are we really talking about? What is the future of the nation of Israel? Now that it's back in the land after 1900 years, that's big stuff. Here they are back in their land. So what's coming down the pike? The future ought to interest us. It really ought to interest us. Where's this all heading? What's the future? You know, it's possible for us to be looking backward a lot, even lamenting something from our past. I'm probably talking to somebody who's lamenting something they did in the past. May I give you something encouraging? Paul said, this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. You know, if anybody had something to lament from his past, it was the Apostle Paul. I mean, he had been there when Stephen was put to death and other things, but here he is saying, I gotta forget that, I gotta move on. There's a future ahead of me here. And I've often said, there's no future in the past, there really isn't. Now we learn from the past, but I'm very excited about the future. I hope you're excited about the future. And I wanna say this, if you're not sure you're saved, you better be thinking about the future. The future is extremely important. We read this in Amos 4 in verse 12. God says, because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God. Are you prepared to meet your God? You know, there was a fella, I think it's been about 17 years or so ago, I had invited actually his wife who worked at a bank I banked at to church and she came for a while. He started coming with her and heard the gospel and got under conviction and set up an appointment with me to come in and hear about this being saved. We sat across from each other. I took him through the plan of salvation, led him to Christ, and I just still remember him rejoicing, just so glad he had gotten that settled. Well, that was 17 years ago. He contracted cancer in the meantime, and a few days ago, he passed away. And I thought of a conversation we'd had a few weeks earlier and he said this, he goes, I'm not afraid to die. He was prepared to meet his God. Are you prepared to meet your God? It makes all the difference in the world in your future. Now, let me just say this. Be a little future-minded, all right? It's way more important. And I'm just gonna close here quickly with just rifling off several verses, and then we're out of time. But in Matthew 24, Jesus used the word, watch therefore, for you know not what hour your Lord doth come. And we don't. Watch therefore. Paul told us this in 1 Thessalonians 5, for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober. There's that word again. What does it mean to watch? Well, it means more than just kind of looking around. It speaks of waiting and looking with anticipation. Something's on the horizon. Something's going to happen. I'll close with this verse. Peter put it this way. He said, but the end of all things is at hand. Be you therefore sober and watch, watch. I lied. We're gonna look at one more verse. All right, in Revelation 20 to 20. Here we are at the very end of the Bible. Christ says, surely I come quickly. John adds, amen, even so come, Lord Jesus. Come quickly. The return of Christ, I believe, is right around the corner. He's coming quickly. I don't think it's going to be millions and millions and millions of years. You've heard that. What does that do? Kind of like, oh, this has been going on for millions of years. And the devil knows that. That discourages people. We're not talking millions and millions of years. The Bible says 1,000 years with the Lord is as a day. And so here we are passing through, and the Bible tells what the future holds. And you've got Daniel silently listening to Gabriel for three chapters, and finally breaks his silence in verse number eight. He says, and I heard, but I understood not. I didn't get it. He said, oh my Lord, what should be the end of these things? There are things that we don't understand. There are times that we don't understand. And so, at such times, let's seek out knowledge, let's seek out truth, let's do what Daniel did, let's do what the angel did, and ask to know some things, because the future awaits us as God's people, and it's a very exciting one. You've been listening to Pastor Tony Skeving of the Fargo Baptist Church in Fargo, North Dakota. If you would like a CD of today's message, you can obtain one by sending a gift of $2 to Fargo Baptist Church, 3303 23rd Avenue South, Fargo, North Dakota, 58103. That address again, Fargo Baptist Church, 3303 23rd Avenue South, Fargo, North Dakota, 58103. We hope you'll join Pastor Skeving next time right here on Pulpit Power. 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