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Scott's Reference Library
See: November 16, 2003 | November 19, 2006 | November 15, 2009
Daniel 12:1 through Daniel 12:3 (NIV)
1“At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will
arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the
beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose
name is found written in the book—will be delivered. 2Multitudes who sleep in
the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and
everlasting contempt. 3Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the
heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and
ever.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-4
Michael signifies, “Who is like God,” and his name, with the title of “the great
Prince,” points out the Divine Saviour. Christ stood for the children of our
people in their stead as a sacrifice, bore the curse for them, to bear it from
them. He stands for them in pleading for them at the throne of grace. And after
the destruction of antichrist, the Lord Jesus shall stand at the latter day upon
the earth; and He shall appear for the complete redemption of all his people.
When God works deliverance from persecution for them, it is as life from the
dead. When his gospel is preached, many who sleep in the dust, both Jews and
Gentiles, shall be awakened by it out of their heathenism of Judaism. And in the
end the multitude that sleep in the dust shall awake; many shall arise to life,
and many to shame. There is glory reserved for all the saints in the future
state, for all that are wise, wise for their souls and eternity. Those who turn
many to righteousness, who turn sinners from the errors of their ways, and help
to save their souls from death, James 5:20, will share in the glory of those
they have helped to heaven, which will add to their own glory.