But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel 12:4
The prophecy was not to be understood until close to the end when it begins to be fulfilled and men have more knowledge.
In 1909 Charles Peguy thought that “the world changed less since Jesus Christ than in the last thirty years”, and perhaps some young doctor of philosophy in physics would now add that his science has changed more since 1909 than in all recorded time before.
The Lessons of History, chapt. 1, pg 12; Will & Ariel Durant; Simon & Schuster, NY, 1968 ISBN 0-671-41333-3
Civilization has made its greatest strides in the last thousand years, and in the last three centuries, man’s rate of development seems almost to have increased by geometric progression.
“Man in Western Civilization” Vern L. Bullough; Holt, Rinehart & Winston, inc. 1957, 1970; SBN:: 03-077015-7
Do you think Daniel 12:4 is stating that knowledge shall
allow many people to travel frequently in the Last Days?
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel 12:4
2 Timothy 3:6-7 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
I would not say that it has to do with travel per se but with runing to and fro to learn and increase knowledge. Unfortunately, man is ever learning and does not seem to ever come to the truth or simply rejects it in their hubris.
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