What does it mean in Daniel 12:9 that the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end?
The phrase means God is not going to reveal these prophetic truths until the end time. The sealing shows His prerogative to hold things secret, as He did with Daniel and the twelve, until He is ready for men to begin to put it all together.
Les explains that just as God withheld full understanding from the twelve, who did not understand the Scriptures that He should rise from the dead, God also held things secret with Daniel. The closed and sealed words in Daniel 12:9 therefore point to prophetic truths not revealed until the end time, when God is ready for men to begin to put it all together. Verse 10 then describes many being purified, made white, and tried, while the wicked continue doing wickedly.
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
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Why were Daniel's prophetic words closed up and sealed until the end time?
God told Daniel to go his way because the prophetic words were closed up and sealed until the time of the end; these things were not for men to understand until they got close to the end time.