Daniel 11:34

"“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days."

Key Reflection

Daniel 11:34 speaks of a time when wise individuals among the nations will guide and teach many people. Despite this wisdom and instruction, these same groups will face significant trials and tribulations, enduring hardships such as wars (by sword), natural disasters (by flame), captivity, and plunder over an extended period. This verse captures both the spread of knowledge and the subsequent suffering that comes with it, reflecting a complex interplay of enlightenment and persecution in end-time events.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help -By small accessions to their forces. The armies of the Maccabees were never “very” numerous; but the idea here is, that when they should be persecuted, there would be accessions to their forces, so that they would be able to prosecute the war. At first the numbers were very few who took up arms, and undertook to defend the institutions of religion, but their numbers increased until they were finally victorious. Those who first banded together, when the calamities came upon the nation, were Mattathias and his few followers, and this is the little help that is here referred to. See 1 Macc. 2.

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