However;
Daniel 12:10 does say a few people will understand.
Re: your post #5412. The way you phrased it is NOT an accurate reflection of the text in Daniel 12:10. The REAL text does NOT say that
"only a FEW people will understand" and therefore are not purified.
The text says that "MANY shall purify themselves white....and they are the ones who "are wise and understand" while the unsaved don't understand.
Secondly, I have issues with your other verses too which are similar to SG's post above.
1 Cor. 3:11-15...11)For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12) But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw; 13)each man's work will be made manifest: for the day shall disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire; and the fire itself shall test what sort of work each one has done. 14)If the work which any man has built on the foundation [of gold, silver, or precious stones] survives, he will receive a reward. 15)If any man's work [of wood, hay, or straw] is burned up, he will suffer loss: though he himself shall be saved; but only as through fire. (Matthew Henry: "There are others, whose corrupt opinions and doctrines, or vain inventions and usages in the worship of God, shall be made known, disowned, and rejected, in that day."
This is plainly meant of a figurative fire, not of a real one; for what real fire can consume religious rites or doctrines?
(Gill's Expositon..." Christ is the foundation of the Covenant of Grace, and of eternal salvation.)
I agree with both of these well-known commentators.
1 Peter 4:12... "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you...."
The Hebrew turned Christians of that era felt as though they should not have to endure a life of sorrow and persecution in the world after having attached themselves to the Messiah. That is the same today as it was then; many new Christians are baffled when they tell their unsaved friends that they need to be saved too and they then get shunned by them.
Rev 20:7-10... 7)And when the thousand years are ended, Satan shall be loosed from his prison, 8)and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, that is Gog and Magog, to gather [the nations] for battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9)And [Satan's army] marched up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city: and fire came down from heaven and consumed [Satan's army]. 10) and the devil who had deceived [the nations] was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.....
Notice that..
A- Satan has his army but
B- the saints are protected because they are in "the beloved city" [of the New Jerusalem].
C-the beast and the false prophet "are tormented day and night FOREVER AND EVER [in eternity]."
This can only be the
"second coming" of Christ
at the end of the ages which is fought in heaven and not on earth. The "saints" are in heaven so there is no need of a literal camp to run to!!!