Daniel 12.1:"At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people--everyone whose name is found written in the book--will be delivered."
There has always been a lot of heated discussion about the book of Daniel. Some scholars think it is only referring to the "abomination that causes desolation" that occurred when Antiochus Ephipanes desecrated the altar of the Lord in the Temple in 167 B.C. Others think Daniel refers to the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Still other scholars believe that Daniel is referring to different times of suffering at the hands of brutal dictators in the past, present, and future.
I will leave these arguments to the full time professors. One thing that stands out to me in the verse above is that God has supernatural powers that are working for the good of those who are God's chosen people. Michael, that is mentioned, is an archangel that does much of the Lord's fighting in the supernatural realm. I've always thought that if we even had a glimpse of the battles that go on in the spiritual realm, we'd be terrified to death. Suffice it to say that GOD IS IN CONTROL, even when we are overwhelmed by the cataclysmic events we see and experience in this world, even during this "time of distress" or any other time of distress. And the best news of all is that, if you trust Jesus as Lord and Savior, then your name is written in the book, God's book of eternal life!
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