ebedmelech said in post 113:
The Last Day is simply the LAST "Day of the Lord" judgment.
Regarding the judgment at the last "day", in verses like Jn. 6:39-40 and Jn. 12:48, the original Greek word translated as the last "day" (hemera, G2250) doesn't have to mean the last 24-hour day, but can be used figuratively to refer to a much longer period of time (for example, see the Greek of 2 Cor. 6:2, 2 Pet. 3:8, and Jn. 8:56). Jn. 6:39-48 and Jn. 12:48 will occur in the last period of time of this present earth, but they won't occur on the same 24-hour day (Rev. 20:5).
When Jesus returns, only the church will be bodily resurrected and finally-judged (1 Cor. 15:21-23, Rev. 20:5, Ps. 50:3-5, cf. Mk. 13:27; Mt. 25:19-30, 2 Cor. 5:10, Lk. 12:45-48). The bodily resurrected church (including those in the church who had been beheaded by the Antichrist) will then reign on the earth with the returned Jesus for a thousand years (Rev. 19:7-20:6, 5:10, 2:26-29, Ps. 66:3-4, 72:8-11, Zech 14:3-21). Only sometime after the thousand years and the subsequent Gog/Magog rebellion (Rev. 20:7-10, Ezek. chs. 38-39) will the rest of the dead be bodily resurrected (Rev. 20:5) and finally-judged at the great white throne judgment (Rev. 20:11-15).
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Also, regarding the latter or "last" days (plural), they began in the first century A.D. with Jesus' first coming (Heb. 1:2) and the Holy Spirit's pouring out at the Pentecost in Acts 2 (Acts 2:16-17). The last "days" are the last three roughly 1,000-year "days" (2 Pet. 3:8) of the seven roughly 1,000-year "days" from the creation of Adam in roughly 4,000 B.C. to the future end of the present earth and the creation of the new earth (Rev. 21:1) in roughly 3,000 A.D.. So the last "days" are the roughly 3,000 years from Jesus' first coming to sometime after the future millennium (Rev. 20:4-6), which will be part of the last roughly 1,000-year "day".
ebedmelech said in post 113:
Daniel limits nothing. He was told in Daniel 12 that the prophecy would be sealed up until the end.
Dan. 12:7's "time, times, and an half" is referred to in Rev. 12:14, and Revelation is an unsealed book (Rev. 22:10). So the meaning of Dan. 12:7's "time, times, and an half" was unsealed by the time Revelation was written in the first century A.D.. Therefore, "the end" in Dan. 12:4,9 must be "the end" in the same sense as in Heb. 9:26 (see also 1 Cor. 10:11b), which shows that (in one sense) "the end" of the world had already begun at the time of Jesus' first coming and his crucifixion for our sins. So Dan. 12:4b can be referring to many Christians, at anytime after Jesus' first coming and the writing of Revelation, going to and fro, going back and forth, between the still-unfulfilled parts of Revelation and Daniel, and these Christians increasing their knowledge of what's going to happen in our future by seeing how much these two books help to explain each other (cf. Isa. 28:9-10, 1 Cor. 2:13).
Also, Dan. 12:6,8 doesn't require (as is sometimes claimed) that the time of the end in Dan. 12:4,9 won't begin until the "time, times, and an half" in Dan. 12:7 and all the other "wonders" and "things" referred to in Dan. 12:6,8 have ended. For the "time, times, and an half" in Dan. 12:7 refers to only the specific time period of 3.5 literal years which would later be shown from four different angles in Rev. chs. 11-14 (Rev. 11:2b-3, 12:6,14, 13:5,7, 14:9-13), the detailed events of which remain unfulfilled today. And Dan. 12:6 refers to the specific "wonders" that Daniel had just been told about in Dan. 11:2-12:3, which also include detailed events which remain unfulfilled today (Dan. 11:31-12:3), including the church's resurrection into immortality (Dan. 12:2-3) at the time of the Antichrist's defeat (Dan. 11:45-12:3, Rev. 19:20-20:6), whereas Dan. 12:4,9 refers to a more general "time of the end" which began in the first century A.D. (Heb. 9:26, 1 Cor. 10:11b).