| mfblume |
10-27-2008 10:43 PM |
Re: Sony "Did you know"?
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Originally Posted by Mrs. LPW
(Post 617017)
What brings you to this conclusion?
Knowledge of what the visions of Daniel saw... meaning?
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It's what Daniel was told about the meaning of visions:
Watch:
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Daniel 12:4 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 knowledge shall be increased.
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Daniel is told to SEAL the book and in the same breath is told that knowledge shall be increased in the last days.
Then...
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Daniel 12:8-10 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? (9) And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. (10) Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
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Daniel exclaims he cannot understand the visions. He is again told the words are sealed. In other words, the MEANING is shut away from him like a book is sealed. And again we read the WISE shall then understand, but no one in Daniels' day. This is the same thing as saying knowledge shall be increased in the days in which the words ARE NOT SEALED. It's talking solely about the understanding of the visions he saw. Since the visions were not for his day, he could not understand them. They were sealed. But knowledge of what the visions mean would be revealed in the days in which the events would deal with the people alive then.
Barnes said it better than me:
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And knowledge shall be increased - To wit, by this method. The angel seems to mean that in this way there would be an advance in knowledge on all the subjects of religion, and particularly on the points to which he had referred.
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And Clarke:
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Many shall run to and fro - Many shall endeavour to search out the sense; and knowledge shall be increased by these means; though the meaning shall not be fully known till the events take place: Then the seal shall be broken, and the sense become plain.
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The same idea is seen in Isaiah's book that says something not understood and something people have no knowledge about is as follows:
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Isaiah 29:11-12 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: (12) And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
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It is not talking about technology, whether it is true that technology increases or not. The context is speaking of ability of Daniel to understand the visions.
Anyway, I do not mean to sidetrack the point of the thread. |
