Michael is always portrayed in some kind of conflict with Satan, and it is the key, and Michael is the key, to seeing the great controversy portrayed in scriptures. When Michael's there, you're seeing a piece of the pie of the story of the great controversy, whether it's Michael in Revelation 12 casting Satan out of heaven, or Michael arguing with Satan over his authority to resurrect the dead in Jude when he's resurrecting Moses, or here where he's struggling with the kings of the earth against Satan in order to control the history of the world within God's providence for the benefit of his people, and to accomplish his purpose in terms of the gospel. And by the time you get to Daniel 12.1 and Michael stands up, Sister White is clear at this point that this is human probation closing, so what we're seeing here in Daniel's last vision is the very climax of the great controversy in terms of the close of human probation. Now I'm not arguing that the great controversy has other scenes to be fulfilled after human probation closes, but certainly the close of probation for mankind is one of the most important and serious climaxes of the great controversy. And this is portrayed in this last vision of Daniel. Now this last vision of Daniel also brings in other themes from outside the book of Daniel and from inside the book of Daniel. I mean the very opening verses of Daniel, Daniel 1.1 is talking about a war between Babylon and Jerusalem, and Babylon comes into Jerusalem and destroys Jerusalem. But by the time we get to this climax of the great controversy here in Daniel chapter 12, the king of the north, the king of Babylon, Babylon being associated with the north, the king of Babylon at the end of the world, he's gonna make a march on Jerusalem at the very end, but this time it's going to be different than the beginning. This time he doesn't enter Jerusalem, he doesn't conquer Jerusalem, he doesn't destroy Jerusalem. This time he comes to his end and none shall help. So there's themes in this last vision that are part of a bigger theme in the book of Daniel itself that are worth recognizing if we're going to see the context.