“Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.”
The righteous will understand and grow in insight through the persecutions and experiences of the end times; their faith will be refined like precious metal through fire—affirming that the faithful will progressively grasp divine purposes through experiential engagement with the predicted events, and that suffering serves the essential purpose of refining faith. The metallic refining imagery emphasizes both destruction of impurity and preservation of value. Understanding grows through experience, not merely information.
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