It’s Time for Michael to Stand-up! Daniel 12:1Daniel 12 serves as a kind of appendix to the book, paying special heed to the coming Great Tribulation. We can imagine how overwhelmed Daniel must have been by the scope of the revelations that he had received: war and rumor of war, kingdom rising against kingdom, nation raging against nation, bloodshed and persecution, terror and treachery. And it seemed that it was to go on and on, and his beloved people, God’s people, were to receive the brunt of it. Was there no hope? Was there no help? There was. Across the sweep of this foreseen history, God’s people could write the words, “Our times are in his hands” Ps. 31:15. Daniel was now told that Michael, Israel’s guardian angel, will be especially active in the end times, when the Antichrist will launch against the Jewish people the worst period of persecution in all their troubled history. Scriptures speak of this coming time of terror. Our Lord referred to it in His Olivet discourse Matt. 24:21. Jeremiah wrote of this period, ”Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble” Jer. 30:7.