Key: Dan.4:17, 25; Ps. 22:28P

Conclusion of the Vision (chs. 10–12.), and Epilogue to the Book. Dan. 12:8- 13.

1. ‘I understand not’ Lk. 18:34, Jn. 12:16, Act. 1:7, 1Pet. 1:11. What be the end of these things? See on ver. 6; ch. 10:14. Daniel “understood” the main features of the vision as to Antiochns (ch. 10:1, 14), but not as to the times. 1Pet. 1:10–12 refers mainly to Daniel: for it is he who foretells “the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow;” it is he who prophesies “not unto himself, but unto us;” it is he who “enquired and searched diligently, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ in him did signify.” Fausset A. R.
2. Go thy way…they are closed up. Is. 8:16; 29:11, Rev. 10:4.“Daniel’s desire of knowing more is thus deferred “till the time of the end.” John’s Revelation in part reveals what here is veiled. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried Ps. 51:7, Is. 1:18, Eze. 36:25, 1Cor. 6:11, Tit. 2:14, Heb. 12:10, 1Pet. 1:7, Rev. 3:18, but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand  Hos. 14:9, 2Th. 2:10–12, Rev. 9:20–21; 16:11; 22:11; but the wise shall understand ch. 11:33, 35, Ps. 107:43, Pr. 1:5; 2:1–5, Lk. 24:45, Jn. 7:17, 1Cor. 2:10–16, 1Jn. 5:20. There is no need of a fuller explanation as to the time: for when the predictions so far given shall have come to pass, the godly shall be “purified” by the foretold trials, and shall understand that the end is at hand; but the wicked shall not understand, and so shall rush on their own ruin. The “end” is primarily that of Antiochus’s persecution; antitypically, the end of Antichrist’s.” Fausset A. R.
3. “Three periods of “days” date from the “abomination” (i.e. the blasphemous assumption of deity by the Beast, v. 11; Mt. 24:15; 2 Thes. 2:4): (1) Twelve hundred and sixty days to the destruction of the Beast (Dan. 7:25; 12:7; Rev. 13:5; 19:19, 20). This is also the duration of the great tribulation (cf. Dan. 12:4, note). (2) Dating from the same event is a period of 1290 days, an addition of thirty days (Dan. 12:11). (3) Again forty-five days are added, and with them the promise of verse 12. No account is directly given of that which occupies the interval of seventy-five days between the end of the tribulation and the full blessing of verse 12. It is suggested that the explanation may be found in the prophetic descriptions of the events following the battle of Armageddon (Rev. 16:14; 19:21). The Beast is destroyed, and Gentile world-dominion ended, by the smiting of the “Stone cut out without hands” at the end of the 1260 days, but the scene is, so to speak, filled with the debris of the image which the “wind” must carry away before full blessing comes in (Dan. 2:35).” Scofield C. I.
4. Go thy way…thou shall rest. ver. 3. Is. 57:1, Zec. 3:7, Mat. 19:28, Lk. 2:29, 30. 2Co. 5:1, 2Th. 1:7, 2Ti. 4:7, 8, Rev. 14:13, stand. Ps. 1:5, Lk. 21:36, Jude 14, 15 “Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh” to the appointed end! (v. 12.) Whether we shall be found alive, or asleep and at rest in the grave, when Christ shall come, if only we be found waiting and watching for His coming, we shall stand justified before God, and shall receive our allotted inheritance in the heavenly Canaan (v. 13).