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Daniel 12:4, “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

 

Daniel is told this about “the time of the end”.  He was told to seal this prophecy because it was not for the people of is day.  When John was given the words for The Revelation, he was told not to seal the prophecy.  Both prophecies were given for us to know today. 

 

I have been reading about the increased knowledge that we have today.  Quite honestly, it is difficult to believe what is available or soon will be.  I have written before on how quickly the knowledge we have is growing.  We often laugh in our house about having to go to grandchildren for help with phones and computers.  The frightening aspect to this is the research, the writing of the book and the book getting into my hands has already made the information out-of-date.  Daniel stated that the increase in knowledge would be an indicator of the end times.

 

Read the following taken from an article on the internet.  It was dated April 19. 2013. 

 

Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.  According to IBM, the build out of the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.

 

I have been amazed, for example, about the capabilities one has with their cell phone and their wrist watch.  I have phone conversations, internet capabilities, play games, watch movies, text, have my steps counted, and my pulse recorded.  I can pay bills automatically with them, and can even check to see how the insulin is doing if I have diabetes by holding them up to a device stuck to my skin (sorry for the technical talk).  My phone or watch monitors all this stuff and more for me.  I even got a notice the other day that I was in need of doing some exercise.  My phone wanted to know if I was taking the week off!  When shopping, I can go through the check out and hold up a banking app on the phone and the bill is paid. 

 

Do you get the picture?  The computer in your cell phone is much cheaper, more powerful, and so much smaller than the first computer built by MIT in 1965.  In other words, what used to be contained in a building now fits in your back pocket. 

 

This is just one example I can relate to.  Think about the medical advances – how quickly is knowledge increasing?  What about the financial world?  What about surveillance and techniques to watch what people are doing?  What about all the fiber optics being put in the ground?  What will nanotechnology lead to?

 

Here is my point.  We are in the days Daniel told us about.  Have you considered what all this increase in knowledge is leading to?  Is it just for our convenience, to make our life easier and more comfortable?  You and I need to pay close attention to what governments and government leaders are saying.  We will explore more of this in the days ahead.

 

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