And so the book of Daniel ends. The church militant is in this last chapter, the future glory, the preservation of the word of God intact, not added to or taken away. And just a little insight into how long it will be to the very end. Not an insight which imparts any literal time to our minds, but we know that God has a settled time. The apostle Paul speaks of perilous times, the last days, and things getting worse. He speaks in 2 Timothy 3 of there being cycles of intense antagonism to Christ and the church, and each cycle gets worse than the previous one until the end. That ties in with what we read in the Book of Daniel. But the ethos of the church, we must never forget. is that we are a suffering community and we stretch forward to serve the Lord, promoting righteousness, proclaiming the gospel, serving our communities, doing all we can. We don't look for peace and happiness on earth. We have great blessings in fellowship one with another, in dear friends, in mutual encouragement, but we don't look for happiness and contentment on earth, and particularly not from this world. We don't look for diversions just to entertain ourselves and pleasures of socialisation for the sake of it. We are a suffering and a serving church. That is the ethos of the whole Bible and inescapable in the prophecies of Daniel.