Closes Section Three of the book: Chapters 10-12.
(Remember: Chapter 12 is in Hebrew—Israel is the focus.) Refers to Daniel's people, not the Church (Dan 9:16, 19, 24; Dan 10:14; Dan 12:1).
1) A world ruler.
2) A world religion.
3) A world war.
4) A time of tribulation for Israel.
5) Deliverance for the people of God at the end of the tribulation.
6) Resurrection and judgment.
7) Reward of the righteous.
[1] "At that time" (3X) What time? (Dan 9:27).
be, "during" = continuation.
Michael ("your prince") = the angel who oversees Israel. Mentioned 4X in Scripture. Who is he always battling? Satan (Rev 12:7-9). Note "dignity": Jude 9; Cf. Dan 10:13-21.
Satan is a created being... vs. "Christ & Satan."
vs. traditions: Milton, Dante, Goethe, et al. Where does he rule? not Hell: here! We're on his turf. Paradox: ignoring vs. over-reaction…
| Jesus quotes | (Mat 24:21; Mar 13:19(!); Rev 7:14). |
| "Time of Jacob's trouble": | Deu 4:30; Jer 30:7; Joe 2:2; Zec 13:8 (parallel to Dan 11:40-45); Cf. Exd 9:18, 24). |
| Israel to "pass under the rod" | Eze 20:34-38; |
| "Furnace of affliction" | Eze 22:18-22; |
| Only 1/3 spared | Zec 13:8-9 |
| Woman of Rev 12 (Satan cast out: Rev 12:10.) No longer able to accuse. | |
| Thy people (2X) shall be delivered...": | Dan 7:18, 27; Zec 12:10; Zec 13:8-9; Jer 30:7, 11; Rev 12:6-7. |
| (This is the Hebrew portion of the book.) | |
| Also, | Isa 14:12-17; Job 1:6; Job 2:1-7; Zec 3:1-5; cf. Ruth, "threshing floor scene" in Chapter 3. |
| [Visit Yad Vashem; "Never Again" = futile...] | |
| Abomination of Desolation: ("seen" throughout Judea?) | Mat 24:15; Dan 12:11. |
| "Written in the book" | Exd 32:32-33; Psa 69:28; Luk 10:20 |
| Rev 13:8; Rev 17:8; Rev 20:15; Rev 21:27 | |
| Not all prepared | Eze 20:33-38 |
| Israel "unblinded" | Rom 11:25 |
Blotted out? Exd 32:31-33; Psa 69:28; (cf. Rev 3:5; overcomers in 1Jo 5:5). [Distinctive: not all "saints" or "elect" are the same.]
[2] Elect? (Mat 24:22); 144,000 (Rev 7:4); Saved (Rom 11:26).
"Israel, Mine Elect" (Isa 45:4); Isa 11:11; 27:12-13; Jer 30:7; Eze 37:21-28; Hos 3:4-5; Amo 9:11-15.
NT "God's Elect": Rom 8:33; Col 3:12. [John the Baptist: Mat 11:11-12.]
"Spiritual resurrection"? Dead in sins (Eph 2:1; Eph 4:18); quickened by the Word of God (Rom 10:17; Heb 4:12); passed from death to life (Jhn 5:24; Eph 2:5-6).
"National resurrection"? Isa 26:12-19; Jer 16:14-15; Eze 20:33-44; Eze 37:1-28 (Gaebelein, Kelly, Ironside: national, not bodily(?); to support OT at rapture).
Second Resurrection?Eph 4:8-10; 1Pe 3:18-20; Mat 27:52-53; Isa 61:1-2; 2Cr 5:1-8; Rev 20:5-6;
"Many": but not "all."
| Abraham | Gen 22:5; Heb 11:19 |
| Job | Job 19:25-26 |
| Isaiah | Isa 26:19(!) |
| Hosea | Hos 13:14 |
| of Christ | Psa 16:9-10 |
There seems to be no passage in Scripture which teaches that the OT saints will be raised at the time the church is raptured; before the final tribulation.
Hebrew sharply separates two classes of resurrection:
"And many from among the sleepers of the dust of the earth shall awake; these shall be unto everlasting life; but those, the rest of the sleepers, those who do not awake at this time, shall be unto shame and everlasting contempt."
(Tregelles, Culber, Seiss, Nathaniel West)
Rev 20:5, 12-13
Shame, contempt: olam (everlasting) modifies both. An eternal state for the wicked!
"First Resurrection" is a class, not an event: Christ, the firstfruits of them that slept; the rapture; and the two witnesses are all in the "first" resurrection.
[3] This is the first occurrence of "everlasting life" in the OT? Psa 16:10; Psa 49:15; Isa 25:8; Isa 26:19; Hos 13:14; Heb 11:17-18; cf. Dan 11:33.
Jewish "teachers": Dan 11:33-35; Rev 7:4-8; Rev 11:2-12.
"brightness of the expanse": Zachar, to be brilliant.
"lights": Mat 5:14-16; Jhn 5:35; Eph 5:8; 2Cr 4:6; 1Cr 15:41-42.
[4] "Revealed" in last days; primary application to "the time of the end."
The Book of Revelation is not sealed. Rev 22:10; Rev 1:3
[If Knowledge doubles each decade? then, 50% of all "knowledge" has been added these past 10 years!?]
Hebrew hadda'at, "the knowledge," i.e. this prophecy. Link with Dan 12:3 (vs. Amo 8:12).
Israel's blindness to be relieved (Rom 11:25).
Sealing: made secure; preserved; until end (Dan 11:35, 40).
"to/fro" = search: 2Ch 16:9; Jer 5:1; Jer 49:3; Amo 8:12; Zec 4:10.
(Daniel was now over 80 years old.)
[5] Jesus is "man" in linen? Two others were probably angels. Two witnesses: Deu 19:15; Deu 31:28; 2Cr 13:1.
Oath: Gen 14:22; Deu 32:40; Rev 10:5-7.
[7] 3 1/2 years (Dan 7:25; Dan 12:7; Rev 11:2; Rev 13:5); 1260 days; 42 months; mid-week...
[8] Daniel did not understand. (Theory of inspiration!?)
[9] "Go" (mental attitude): Words sealed.
[10] Wicked will not understand (1Cr 2:14; 2Th 2:11; Rev 22:11-12).
[11] 30 days between 1260 and 1290 unrevealed.
Tamid, regular ceremonies (Dan 8:11; Dan 11:31).
Zeus/Jupiter Olympus;
2300 were literal.
[12] 45 days: judgments? Eze 20:34-38; Mat 25:31-46
Start of Millennium? National Borders of Gen 15:18?
So closes the most comprehensive prophetic revelation in the OT.
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Missler, Chuck, Expositional Commentary on Revelation, 4 Volumes, Koinonia House, 1993.
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