The time referred to here is the consummation of the age (Matt. 28:20b), the last three and a half years of the present age (v. 7; 7:25b). That will be a time of distress, the time of the great tribulation (Jer. 30:7a; Matt. 24:15-26), during which the shattering of the power of the holy people will be completed (v. 7b; Dan. 7:25b; Rev. 13:5, 7a; Rev. 11:2). The vision in this chapter covers things in the last three and a half years of the present age, things in the kingdom age, and things in eternity.

See note Dan. 10:11¹.

Those of the people of Israel who are found written in God’s book of life will be delivered out of the hand of Antichrist. When Christ comes back to set up the kingdom, the small number of remaining Jews, the remnant of Israel (Zech. 13:8-9; 14:1-2 and notes), will see Christ descending in the air and will repent, receive Him, and be saved and regenerated (Zech. 12:10-14; 14:4-5; Matt. 24:30; Rom. 11:26-27; Rev. 1:7). However, because they will be the later believers, they will not participate in the heavenly section of the kingdom as kings and priests, but rather will be kept on the earth to be the priests of God (Isa. 2:2-3; Zech. 8:20-23) in the earthly section of the thousand-year kingdom. See note Matt. 3:2^2b.

In the millennial kingdom there will be three groups of people:
1) the overcoming believers in the heavenly section as kings and priests in the heavenlies (see note Rev. 20:6^4d);
2) the saved Jews who will be on the earth as the priests teaching the restored nations (see note Zech. 8:20¹);
3) the restored nations as the citizens under the ruling of the overcoming believers as the co-kings of Christ and also under the teaching and care of the saved Jews (see note Matt. 25:32^1a and note Matt. 25:34¹).
After the thousand years of the age of the kingdom, the old heaven and the old earth will be burned in order to be renewed (2 Pet. 3:12-13 and notes) and become a new heaven and new earth (Rev. 21:1). At that time the Jews who are saved and regenerated by the Lord in His second coming will join all the believing saints of the Old Testament age and the New Testament age to be the New Jerusalem as God’s dwelling place and expression for eternity (Rev. 21:12, 14). The nations who remain at the end of the millennium will be transferred to the land in the new earth to be the citizens forever (Rev. 21:24-26; 22:2b). That will be the eternal kingdom of God, in which God’s chosen, created, regenerated, sanctified, transformed, and glorified people, who are one with God for eternity, will rule over and teach the restored (but not regenerated) nations, who will be the citizens in the new heaven and the new earth. Eventually, in eternity in His eternal kingdom God will have His priests, His kings, and His people (Rev. 22:3, 5; 21:3) forever.

At the end of the great tribulation the sleeping (i.e., dead — 1 Cor. 15:51) saints will rise in the resurrection of life to meet with Christ in the air (vv. 2, 13; John 5:28-29a; 1 Thes. 4:16-17; 2 Thes. 2:1, 3-4, 8; Rev. 14:14-16). After the millennium, the kingdom age, those who died as unbelievers will rise in the resurrection of judgment and will suffer eternal reproach and contempt in eternity forever and ever (v. 2b; John 5:29b; Rev. 20:15).

The overcomers mentioned in this verse will shine in the kingdom age (Matt. 13:43). Together with those in v. 10 and with Daniel in v. 13, they will participate in the kingdom and will continue their enjoyment of the eternal life in eternity forever.

Lit., whitened.

At the end of the one thousand two hundred and sixty days of the great tribulation Antichrist will be fully destroyed by Christ (2 Thes. 2:8; Rev. 19:20). At the beginning of the millennium, the kingdom age, thirty more days will be needed to cleanse and clear up the contaminated, devastated, and defiled temple. Just as the Maccabees cleansed the temple after it had been defiled by Antiochus Epiphanes (Dan. 8:14 and notes), so the saved Jews will cleanse the temple at the beginning of the millennial kingdom.

After the cleansing of the temple mentioned in v. 11, forty-five days will be needed to recover the destroyed system of the worship of God with the daily sacrifices. Thus, from the time that Antichrist causes the offerings to cease to the day the Israelites enjoy the offerings again will be 1335 days. The restoration of the sacrifices will be a great blessing to the people of Israel (Joel 2:14).

Indicating that Daniel will be resurrected to enjoy his lot in the kingdom age. See note Dan. 12:3^1a.