Daniel 12:13 (ESV Strong's)
13 But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”
Resurrection Hope!
Philosophers have struggled since the beginning of time with two questions:
1. Where did we come from?
2. Where are we going?
In the above passage the second question is answered for Daniel (and for all believers). The last half of Daniel (chapters 7-12) are about events that will take place in the end times. When we read them we are as confused as Daniel was when he saw the vision and recorded them for us:
Daniel 10:8-9 (ESV Strong's)
8 So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed, and I retained no strength. 9 Then I heard the sound of his words, and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in deep sleep with my face to the ground.
After each vision, Daniel was often left exhausted, confused and humbled. There is so much in these chapters that libraries contain all the books written about the message and the vision. But, in the end, God ends the book of Daniel is both an unusual manner and a glorious manner. After all the visions and all the complex interpretations of the visions God simply tells Daniel to go “your way till the end.” What God is saying to Daniel, in light of all these messages, finish your life in faith and then in the end you “shall stand in your allotted place ...”. His “allotted” place is a resurrected place. God is giving him the hope he needs to live his life in light of these, often, dark prophesies. We should not be fearful of the events mentioned in Daniel. We should be at peace that God is going to bring it all to an end in a glorious manner to exalt Himself. Daniel, like us, will simply have an “allotted place at the end.”
Paul said it this way:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (ESV Strong's)
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
John said it this way:
Revelation 5:9-10 (ESV Strong's)
9 And they sang a new song, saying,
“Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,
and they shall reign on the earth.”
Our “allotted” place is a place of victory and a place of reigning with the Lord, with Christ. That is comforting to know as we watch the plans of God unfold in the powers of the earth. In the end, we stand with Him!!
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