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His soul, which was made an offering for sin, was "poured out unto death". Yet the
same passage says:
"He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days",
which can only be possible in resurrection. In the Psalm of the King (Psa. 21:) we read:
"He asked life of Thee, and Thou gavest it Him, even length of days for ever and
ever" (Psa. 21: 4),
which can only be realized in resurrection.
"He shall see of the travail of His soul, and be satisfied."
Though we assemble all the words used in Holy Writ to describe the sufferings and
the death of the Son of God we can never, at least in this life, apprehend their depth. Yet
He Who bore our sins and suffered the just for the unjust, will actually "see of the travail
of His soul and be SATISFIED"! Let it be observed, that He is not said to see the travail
of His soul, but to see "of" the travail, to see the fruits of His sufferings, in other words
"To see His seed . . . . . and be satisfied".
At the close of Daniel's prophecy, we learn of a resurrection in which Daniel himself
is assured that he will "stand at the end of the days":
"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the
children of Thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since
there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered,
every one that shall be found written in the book.
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.
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that
turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end"
(Dan. 12: 1-4).
Here is confessedly a passage of extreme difficulty, and the only way to feel assured
of our interpretation is to see it squarely in its setting. These words quoted from
Dan. 12:, are the closing words of the heavenly visitor who appears in chapter 10:,
before whose presence, Daniel fell on his face toward the ground. Let us see whether
we can find some outstanding words or term that will link this great passage, including
Dan. 12:, together as a whole. As one reads through the insistent repetition of the word
"stand" variously translated "stood", "stand up", "remained", "confirm", "continue",
"establish", "set forth" and "withstand" which translate the Hebrew word amad, and
which occurs 28 times in these chapters, one realizes that, as Daniel is told in the last
verse of the book:
"But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end
of the days" (Dan. 12: 13).
This word obviously cannot be ignored.