Daniel 12

CLAIM: This describes Israel’s greatest trouble in history. This trouble will last for three and a half years (a time, times, and half a time).

red False.

The time of great trouble, or the Great Tribulation, in view here, looking at the discussion of Daniel 11 in the previous section, then also puts this time of great trial at the beginning of the Roman empire, or “in the days of those kings” of Rome, which we see Historically as 70AD.

Thus, while there are a few elements such as the resurrection where are mentioned, it does not give a time frame connecting the great tribulation to this, only that they will both happen.  It does not say they will be immediately resurrected after the Great Tribulation, only that they will be.  From a far perspective of Daniel, this is merely foreshadowing the redemptive power of the Cross and the resurrection that is to come.

So, the whole of the scope of Daniel is reflected in Daniel 9, where it is the prayer for the people and the city.  The 490 years were granted, the Jews missed their day of visitation (as Daniel 9 prophesied they would), and we await the time of Ezekiel 39 where they will be restored and come to salvation, which Paul said would be as resurrection of the dead, or, the greatest “revival” ever, perhaps.