⁴ When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write. But I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Keep secret^[a] what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down.”

⁴ But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”

²⁶ “This vision about the 2,300 evenings and mornings^[a] is true. But none of these things will happen for a long time, so keep this vision a secret.”

⁹ But he said, “Go now, Daniel, for what I have said is kept secret and sealed until the time of the end.

¹⁰ Then he instructed me, “Do not seal up the prophetic words in this book, for the time is near.

²⁹ “The Lord our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.

¹¹ It said, “Write in a book^[a] everything you see, and send it to the seven churches in the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

The Lord’s Second Reply

² Then the Lord said to me,

¹¹ All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, “We can’t read it because it is sealed.”