Daniel 12

We must not only cast ourselves into Christ's arms to be saved by him, but we must cast ourselves at his feet to serve him. Second title, Christ is exalted to be a Prince (Daniel 12:1). There shall stand up Michael the great prince.

2. Christ is a King to defend his people, as Christ has a scepter to rule them, so a shield to defend them (Psalm 3:3), You, O Lord, are a shield for me. When Antiochus did rage furiously against the Jews, he took away the vessels of the Lord's House, set up an idol in the Templ…

He has decreed troubles in the Church, His fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem (Isaiah 31:9). The wheels in a watch move cross one to another, but they all carry on the motion of the watch: So the wheels of providence often move cross to our desires, but still they car…

To see sin break forth in them, who have a face of religion, is most to be abominated. The sins of the wicked are not so much wondered at (Daniel 12:10). The wicked shall do wickedly.

We have a promise of salvation, Whosoever believeth in Christ, shall not perish, but have life everlasting. Of our resurrection, Daniel 12. They that sleep in the dust, shall rise again.

Reserve the unjust against the day of judgement to be punished (2 Peter 2:9). And both these are put together (Daniel 12:2): And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. This truth being o…

He it was that spake and swore by himself. For when a mere Angel swears, he swears always by one greater than himself according to the rule of our Apostle in this place (Daniel 12:17; Revelation 10:5, 6). Secondly, it may be enquired when God did thus swear: [⟨in non-Latin alpha…

1. That we are all made for an eternal state and condition in blessedness or woe. Men may live like beasts, and therefore wish that they might die like them also; but we are all made with another design, and must all of us stand in our eternal lot at the end of the days (Daniel…

Though they are earthen vessels, yet they have heavenly treasure in them; they are filled with the wine of the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). Though they are scoured with affliction, yet it is to make them brighter (Daniel 12:10). 5. God calls them the apple of his eye (Zechariah 2:8).

Quest. 3. The next question is, who is meant by Michael the Arch-Angel. Michael is the name of his person, and Arch-Angel of his office; Michael signifies, he is strong God, or who is like the strong God; and therefore some apply it to Jesus Christ, who in many places of Scriptu…

Who can be assured that that hour of greatest darkness, the killing of the witnesses is past, and all that sad prophecy (Revelation 11) fulfilled. And if some be not much mistaken, it is told (Daniel 12:1) that there shall be greater tribulation about the time of the Jews' conve…

God makes use of the wicked for the good of his Church. He sometimes suffers his people to be cast out in the open field, and lets the wicked pour waters of affliction upon them, but he is all this while laying his people a whitening, Dan. 12. 10. Many shall be tried, and made w…

For us to delay, supposing that we know the time to be far off, is not agreeable to the language of God's people in my Text, Come, let us go SPEEDILY, and pray before the Lord, and seek the Lord of Hosts. Ans. 2. I acknowledge that Mr. Lowman's Exposition of the Revelation is, o…

Theology as a complex of spiritual gifts — Extraordinary or ordinary gifts — Ordinary gifts peculiar to the ministry or common to all — Christ the bestower of all gifts (Psalm 68:19; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8) — The Hebrew word signifies both to receive and to give — Christ the a…

Although this acceptance of the word, is the great rise of the Popish error, in that controversy concerning justification. Secondly, others take it for God's revealing, manifesting, or declaring the way, how a guilty person comes to be just; and so to justify, is for ministers t…

And so Christ was not free of shame passively, as it is a punishment of sin; for it is a penal evil of the creature. (Daniel 12:2) "Many that sleep in the dust shall awake, some to shame and everlasting contempt." (Ezekiel 32:24) "Elam and all her multitude are slain — they have…

Why, this and that I have prayed for, but my faith is faint within me for want of the thing I desire; why, but be not discouraged, heaven and earth shall fail, but the word of God shall never fail, do but consider what it is you have asked, and know there is no prayer of yours,…

And our imitating Christ in our Ministry, will be the way for us to be Partakers with him in his Glory; the way for us in like manner to be approved, and openly honoured and rewarded by God; the way to be brought to sit with Christ on his Throne, as he is set down with the Fathe…

Secondly, that there are sundrie degrees of glorie and felicitie in heauen, proportionall to mens works: for all men doe not sow alike, neither are their workes equall; but have sund[••]e degrees of goodnes in them, and therefore there are answerable degrees of glorie wherewith…

The passage here referred to, and from which CALVIN thinks that the quotation is not made, is Daniel 9:27, And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifices and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading or…

Their lusts yet have a reigning power in their hearts; and therefore to these masters they will bow down again. Daniel 12:10. Many shall be purified and made white and tried: But the Wicked will do wickedly: And none of the Wicked shall understand.

Neither shall I at present farther insist on the ensuing Observations, because I will not longer detain the Reader from the Context, namely, that All that serve God in the work of building the Church, according to his appointment, are anointed by his Spirit, and shall be rewarde…

It is not a bare going about, but it is a going about as a spy, to search, to inquire, to observe and consider diligently all things as one passes along. The same word is used (Daniel 12:4) for discoursing; we translate it thus, Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be i…

The scope is to show, that she acknowledged Christ's care in providing watchmen and ordinances to her, and as they were not [illegible] to her, but were blessed for her good; so he should have honor, and their pains taken on her, by her fruitfulness, should redound to their comm…

And we are told, that "white robes were given to every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also, and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." So, Daniel 12:6, "How lon…

Now we have received this light of faith and grace, whereby we discern spiritual things, and behold the glory of Christ in the imperfect manner before described. But in Heaven there shall be a superadded light of glory, which shall make the mind itself shine as the firmament (Da…

And besides, the reason that is given why the Heavens are incorruptible, may be given why the bodies of the Saints shall be incorruptible: the Heavens are of so excellent a form, that the capacity of the matter is fully filled up; and there may be truth in that reason: so the bo…

And you shall then appear in exceeding different circumstances: While you stand with devils, in the image and deformity of devils and in ineffable horror and amazement, they shall appear in glory, sitting on thrones, as assessors with Christ, and as such passing judgment upon yo…

(Romans 5:5) Hope makes not ashamed, because it is not frustrated. 3. By the contempt and dishonor God puts upon them, banishing them out of his presence; they become the scorn of saints and angels (Daniel 12:2). And many of them that sleep in the dust shall arise, some to everl…

And in another place, says he, "He that rebukes a man, afterwards shall find more favor than he that flatters with his tongue" (Proverbs 28:23). Secondly, you will hereby entitle yourself to that great and precious promise, that they that be wise, shall shine as the brightness o…

'Twill be a marvelous miraculous kind of death, a living death, a death that never dies, an immortal mortality; they will live whose portion this death is, and death will be their portion all their life. 4 It's a state of shame and contempt; there is scarce any thing in the worl…

Look as the searcher at the sea-port, or custom-house, or ships, satisfies himself not to overlook carelessly in a [illegible] view, but unlocks every chest, rummages every corner, takes a light to discover the darkest passages. So is it with meditation, it observes the woof and…

Certainly if the angels in heaven rejoice at the conversion of a sinner (Luke 15), how shall that minister rejoice in heaven over every soul that he has been instrumental to convert? Every convert gained, as it shall add a member to Christ's body, so a jewel to a minister's crow…

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold. Fiery trials make golden Christians; afflictions are purifying (Daniel 12:10). Many shall be tried, and made white.

2. God's design; God has a two-fold design in the persecutions of his children. 1. Trial (Daniel 12:10). Many shall be tried: persecution is the touchstone of sincerity; it discovers true saints from hypocrites; unsound hearts pretend fair in prosperity, but in a time of persecu…

Of this opinion were Hymenaeus and Philetus (2 Timothy 2:18). But the rising from sin is called the first resurrection (Revelation 1:6), which implies that there is a second resurrection; and that second I shall prove out of (Daniel 12:2): And many of them that sleep in the dust…

Fiery trials make golden Christians. Afflictions are purifying (Daniel 12:10). Many shall be tried, and made white.

Since man was turned out of Paradise he can do nothing without labor, except sin (this follows his hand indeed) but this treasure of knowledge calls for spade and Mattock. We are bid search the Scripture, and Daniel 12:4. Many shall runne to and fro, and knowledge shall be encre…

Some arguments let us here take notice of, which seem to speak as if a day of trouble were near to us, yes, and not the sounding again of the mountains. 1. (To begin with that which is most general) There is a day of trouble coming upon all the World; and such trouble too, as th…

But let us see what this respondent worthy of such a great opening will bring forth, and hear him speak in his own language, he says then First, this reason is weak and of no force, for the word 'many,' is often so used, that it both signifies all and every man, and also amplifi…

Once the Participle is used to denote the outward instrumental cause of the justification of others, in which place alone there is any doubt of its sense. Daniel 12:3. ; And they that justify many; namely, in the same sense that the Preachers of the gospel are said to save thems…

Now we have received this light of faith and grace, by which we discern spiritual things and behold the glory of Christ in the imperfect manner before described. But in heaven there shall be an added light of glory which shall make the mind itself shine as the firmament (Daniel…

Dan. 12. 13. But go you your way till the end be, for you shall rest, and stand in the lot at the end of the days. The words of my text having no dependance (as to their sense & meaning, but only as to the occasion of them) on the verses foregoing, I shall not at all look backwa…

V. 9. And the Kings of the Earth (being some of them shaken out of their dominion for refusing to close with the Lamb) who have committed fornication, and lived deliciously with her (learning and practising false worship of her institution) shall bewail her, and lament for her,…

4. It is needful for to keep a good conscience by walking in obedience to the truth and will of God, so far as a man does know already: for to such there is a promise that they shall know what doctrine is of God and what is otherwise (John 7:17). Whereas they that take pleasure…

(4) Because, according to Enoch's prophecy, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them (Jude verses 14-15). (5) Because many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everla…

(8) Because, the wicked will be carried into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:46). And the same wicked, are to rise again to shame, and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2). And to suffer the vengeance of everlasting fire (Jude verse 7).

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, there are promises extant in the Old Testament of life eternal (Isaiah 45:17), where it is said, Israel shall be saved with an everlasting salvation; see also (Daniel 12:2). (2) Because, the fathers under the Old Testament, believe…

Q. 1. What is the resurrection of the flesh? A. An act of the mighty power of God's holy Spirit, applying to us the virtue of Christ's resurrection, whereby at the last day, he will raise our whole bodies from the dust to be united again into our souls in everlasting happiness (…