Daniel 12

The book climaxes with the promise that Michael will arise to deliver God’s people through a time of unequaled trouble, and that “many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.” The wise “shall shine like the brightness of the sky,” and Daniel is told to seal the words until the end, with the assurance that he will rest and “stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”