And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
The greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High - i:e., the power which those several kingdoms had possessed shall all be conferred on Messiah's kingdom and Messiah's people, the literal and the spiritual Israel. "Under ... heaven" shows it is a kingdom on earth, not in heaven.
The people of the saints of the Most High - `the people of the saints, or holy ones' (margin, Daniel 8:24): the Jews, the people to whom the saints stand in a special relation. The saints are gathered out of Jews and Gentiles, but the stock of the Church is Jewish, on which have been "graffed branches cut out of the (Gentile) olive tree, which is wild by nature" (Romans 9:24; Romans 11:24); God's faithfulness to this election-church is thus virtually faithfulness to Israel, and a pledge of their future national blessing. Christ confirms this fact, while withholding the date (Acts 1:6-7, The disciples asked of Jesus, after His resurrection, "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power").
Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. If everlasting, how can the kingdom here refer to the millennial one? Answer. Daniel saw the whole time of future blessedness as one period. The clearer light of the New Testament distinguishes, in the whole period, the millennial kingdom and the time of the "new heaven and the new earth" (cf. Revelation 20:4, "They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years," with Revelation 21:1; Revelation 22:5, "They shall reign forever and ever"). Christ's kingdom is "everlasting." Not even the last judgment shall end it, but only give it a more glorious appearance, the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, with the throne of God and the Lamb in it (cf. Revelation 5:9-10; Revelation 11:15).