“But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall
stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”
The very last verse of the book of Daniel is a personal promise from a mighty angel to an Old Testament saint
three
times called
“greatly loved”. It assumes something the Old Testament refers to rarely and about which Judaism today says next to nothing: a future for godly men and
women beyond this present life.
The angel doesn’t formally teach this so much as he simply takes it for
granted: “You will lie in your grave for a bit, then God has something specific
in mind for you after all that.”
I wonder what Daniel thought about it, but not even the greatest Bible expositor or translator can tell
me that. The book of Daniel ends there. As usual, God gets the last word.