Daniel 12:6 · World English Bible
Daniel 12:6 Meaning One Said to the Man Clothed
One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”
What does Daniel 12:6 mean?
The man clothed in linen standing over the river is the awakened imagination, wrapped clean and moving above the current of Scripture's inner truth, which is what the water is. He stands over that truth rather than being carried by it, because the one who has awakened is master of the meaning and no longer swept along by the story's surface.
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The man clothed in linen standing over the river is the awakened imagination, wrapped clean and moving above the current of Scripture's inner truth, which is what the water is. He stands over that truth rather than being carried by it, because the one who has awakened is master of the meaning and no longer swept along by the story's surface.
The question, how long until the end of these wonders, is the question every person carries once the promise stirs in him. The answer Scripture gives elsewhere is that these marvels unfold in a set span and finish in the full revealing of the father and the son within. The wonders are not events in the sky. They are the stages of awakening happening in one person, on their own appointed clock. The end comes when God is known as your own imagination, and not a moment sooner.
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Live Daniel 12:6 today
- Ask yourself today how long something in you has been taking, then let the question go instead of answering it. Stay with the thing itself.
- When someone you love is changing slowly, or not changing at all, stop checking their progress. Be with who they are today.
- In a week where results are being demanded of you, do the part in front of you well and let the timeline be what it is. Rushing the inner part has never once sped it up.
Can I stop asking how long and just be in it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 29
The world is not a thing to be grabbed and arranged. Force it and you spoil it, and the one who meddles loses it.
Zen
A student asks how long until he is enlightened. The teacher says, ten years. The student says, what if I try twice as hard. Twenty years.
Stoicism · Epictetus
No great thing comes into being all at once, no more than a fig or a grape. It needs its blossom, then its fruit, then its ripening.
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