Jeremiah is known as The Weeping Prophet....and it is pretty obvious why.....as he knew what was going to happen to his beloved Jerusalem....and he knew this in detail....but Daniel.....who was younger but a contemporary of Jeremiah....reacted a little bit differently to what he saw in a few of his visions.
In what is chapter seven of Daniel....in what would be the middle of his relating various visions.....this is written...."As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me." This was added at the end of this passage...."At this point the revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were greatly alarming me and my face grew pale..."
The next chapter has Daniel in the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king....this being two years later.....and after a wholly different vision....we read this as to Daniel's reaction...."Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up again and carried on the king's business; but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.
Daniel as a youth had witnessed the fall of Jerusalem....the same destruction that Jeremiah had warned of....but this was something different....and even more terrifying....if that could even be possible. He had seen some of what would happen....in our day....to us....in what has to be the not too distant future....and it made him sick!,
Daniel seemed to want a little more information at the end of the book....but was told to go his own way....."for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time"....but a little bit more description was given him...."Many will be purged, purified and refined; but the wicked will act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand."
My point in this post is this....what is ahead for us.....even just glimpses of it.....made the courageous and determined Daniel....distressed and sick! Is there not an underlying message here for us? Well one reason that we do not put two and two together here is that we have fallen for the error of the....pre-trib rapture....where we are not going to experience that which made Daniel sick. If we today had even a glimpse of what is in store for us....we could not possibly be so nonchalant as to the future....or disdainful of any warnings some give us.
I need to add something here. That there are those who teach that pre-trib rapture....does not make them heretics! We are all wrong on something! We are all.....all of us who are interested anyway....working through the days that we live in and what God says about them....together....and we are going to come even more together as time passed.....as many more will be winnowed away.
I need to add this also....it is obvious in what I wrote in this post....that the days that Daniel saw in his vision.....are our days. It would be difficult for me to write it any other way. After forty years of this study in prophesy....and seventy-one years on this earth.....and seeing what is happening all around us today....the horror of the confusion and delusion of it all....and knowing that May 14, 1948 was not just another event in history....I cannot conclude anything else but that Jesus is mounted along with His holy angels....and at the door.....and after the America of my youth has turned into the America of today....along with the whole world....I can do nothing but hope and pray that Jesus is near.
