DCLM Daily Manna 18 December 2025 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — The Time Of Jacob’s Trouble

TOPIC: The Time Of Jacob’s Trouble (DCLM Daily Manna 18 December 2025)

KEY VERSE: “And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end” (Daniel 12:9).

TEXT: Daniel 12:5-13 (KJV)

5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

8 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.

11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

DCLM Daily Manna For Today MESSAGE:

Our text concludes the series of predictions about eschatological events revealed by God to Daniel the prophet, concerning the nation Israel. The chapter opens the curtain on the pivotal focus of this prophecy – the many troubles the nation of Israel would face in the latter days referred to variously in different parts of the Bible. “There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the book” (Daniel 7:25; 9:27; 12:7; Revelation 11:2,3;12:6,14; 13:5). Daniel had the privilege of receiving the series of revelations about the events of the last days. Many of these, especially the catastrophic sufferings during the great tribulation that will befall the nation of Israel, saddened him and made him worried about his people. His genuine concern and burden for his people to survive that period serves as a lesson for all of us.

The events in the passage will occur after the Church has been raptured, and the reign of the Anti-christ kicks in, in the second half of the great tribulation period. Although the troubles will be global, the sufferings will be essentially most intense on the nation of Israel. But she would not be obliterated as deliverance will come her way at the appearance of the Messiah, at the second advent when He returns to establish His millenial kingdom. Israel will mourn and lament for the manner they treated the Messiah at His first coming.

This brought home to us the lesson on timely decision for the Messiah. In the history of God’s dealings with man, we are in the period known as the Church Age, the period of grace. All who have been saved by faith in Christ and are righteous will be raptured with the saints. Suppose anyone rejects salvation at this period of grace; what guarantees that such will endure the intense sufferings of the great tribulation and escape eternal doom? This is therefore the period to accept the salvation that Christ brought to mankind, live in holiness daily, and proclaim the gospel so that others can escape the impending judgment.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Genuine believers will escape the great tribulation.

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Deeper Life Daily Manna For Today 2025 was written by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.