Daniel 12:9-13
‘And He said: “Go your way, Daniel! For the words are…sealed till the time of the end…. From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be 1290 days. Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the 1335 days!… Go on your way, till the end be! For you shall rest, and stand up in your lot at the end of the days!”‘ Daniel 12:9-13.
Calvin comments that Daniel “says ‘the words were closed up and sealed’…. The full blaze of light has not yet been thrown upon the prediction…. He then says, ‘until the time of the end’….
“For what purpose was this prediction delivered?… Remember that neither Daniel nor the rest of the faithful were deprived…of this prophecy. For God explained to them whatever was sufficient for the necessities of their own time….
‘From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be 1290 days’…. The time now treated by the angel, begins at the last destruction of the temple (in 70 A.D.). That devastation happened, as soon as the Gospel began to be promulgated….
“I have no hesitation in referring this language…to the profanation of the temple which happened after the manifestation of Christ — when sacrifices ceased, and the shadows of the Law were abolished…. From that period, ‘there shall be 1290 days’…. The angel then purposely puts days for years (till Wycliffe in 1360 A.D. [and after that for another 1335 days or years])… That time may seem immeasurably prolonged…, yet it must be endured…. The faithful ought constantly to persist in the hope of deliverance….
‘But go on your way, till the end be! For you shall rest, and stand up in your lot at the end of the days!’… You shall rest’ — meaning, you shall die. But then, you shall stand (up again)!… Your death shall not be complete destruction! For God shall cause you to stand (up again) in your lot with the rest of the elect. And that, too, at the end of the days…. That is, after God has sufficiently proved the patience of His people — and by long and numerous…contests has humbled His Church and purged it — until the end shall arrive….
“Grant, Almighty God, since You propose to us no other end than that of constant warfare during our whole life, and subject us to many cares until we arrive at the goal of this temporary racecourse — grant…that we may never grow fatigued! May we ever be armed and equipped for battle! And whatever the trials by which You prove us, may we never be found deficient!
“May we always aspire towards Heaven with upright souls, and strive with all our endeavours to attain that blessed rest which is laid up for us in Heaven! In Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen!”
For at death, believers go into rest — before resurrection, at the end of the days!
