Prophecy of the End Time

⁴ “But you, Daniel, ^(I)shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall ^(J)run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that ^(K)riverbank. ⁶ And one said to the man clothed in ^(L)linen, who was above the waters of the river, ^(M)“How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be?”

⁷ Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he ^(N)held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him ^(O)who lives forever, ^(P)that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; ^(Q)and when the power of ^(R)the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.

⁸ Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”

⁹ And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. ^10 (S)Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, ^(T)but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but ^(U)the wise shall understand.

¹¹ “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. ¹² Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

¹³ “But you, go your way till the end; ^(V)for you shall rest, ^(W)and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”

Gog’s Armies Destroyed

39 “And ^(A)you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ^[a]the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal; ² and I will ^(B)turn you around and lead you on, ^(C)bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. ³ Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand. ^4 (D)You shall ^[b]fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; ^(E)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. ⁵ You shall ^[c]fall on ^[d]the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord God. ^6 (F)“And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live ^[e]in security in ^(G)the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the Lord. ^7 (H)So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them ^(I)profane My holy name anymore. ^(J)Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. ^8 (K)Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day ^(L)of which I have spoken.

⁹ “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the ^[f]javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years. ¹⁰ They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; ^(M)and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord God.

The Burial of Gog

¹¹ “It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of ^[g]Hamon Gog. ¹² For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, ^(N)in order to cleanse the land. ¹³ Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain ^(O)renown for it on the day that ^(P)I am glorified,” says the Lord God. ¹⁴ “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of ^[h]a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order ^(Q)to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. ¹⁵ The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall ^[i]set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. ¹⁶ The name of the city will also be ^[j]Hamonah. Thus they shall ^(R)cleanse the land.” ’

A Triumphant Festival

¹⁷ “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ^(S)‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:

Israel Restored to the Land

^21 (AA)“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and ^(AB)My hand which I have laid on them. ^22 (AC)So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward. ^23 (AD)The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore ^(AE)I hid My face from them. I ^(AF)gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. ^24 (AG)According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’

²⁵ “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(AH)‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the ^(AI)whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name— ^26 (AJ)after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they ^(AK)dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid. ^27 (AL)When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I ^(AM)am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, ^28 (AN)then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them ^[k]captive any longer. ^29 (AO)And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have ^(AP)poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”