Daniel 12:12

Happy is he that waiteth, and attaineth to a thousand three hundredand five and thirty days Happy is he who waits (cf. Isaiah 30:18, -happy are all they that waitfor him," Isaiah 64:4), not giving up his trust in Jehovah, for 45 days (1½ month) beyond the 1290 days mentioned in Daniel 12:11. Why this further limit is assigned, it is impossible to say with any certainty. All that can be said is that the turning-point (whatever it may have been), marked by the close of the 1290 days, was not pictured by the author as introducing at once the period of complete blessedness this he did not conceive as beginning for 45 days afterwards. What he imagined as the cause of the postponement must remain matter of speculation: if the 1290 days are rightly interpreted as ending with the death of Antiochus, he may have thought, for instance, that its full effects would not appear at once, and that true rest would not begin for the Jews till after a short interval more.