Note: This is an excerpt from a book on Daniel 7 coming in January 2019 called The Son of Man: Recovering the Apostolic Gospel. Daniel used the phrase “Most High” to identify the Son of Man as YHWH. Gabriel’s appearance to announce Jesus’ birth immediately connected Jesus to Daniel’s prophecies
Note: This is an excerpt from a book on Daniel 7 coming in January 2019 called The Son of Man: Recovering the Apostolic Gospel. Daniel’s description of the Son of Man served as the basis of Jesus’ claim of an exalted identity. Daniel 7 does more than give the Son
Note: This is an excerpt from a book on Daniel 7 coming in January 2019 called The Son of Man: Recovering the Apostolic Gospel. When Jesus used the phrase “Son of Man” to describe Himself, He was making a very bold claim about His identity. If we do not grasp
Daniel 7 is one of the key visions contained in the book of Daniel. Because the vision begins with symbolic imagery, some wonder if the chapter can be clearly interpreted and whether it refers to the past or the future. Can we look at Daniel 7 and determine conclusively whether the vision refers to the past or to the future?
Daniel 7:12 raises an interesting question: why is the antichrist destroyed suddenly while the lives of the rest of the beasts are prolonged? Thankfully, when we look at the verse more closely, we find that there is a very specific emphasis in this verse that can resolve the question.
Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 both place their emphasis on a fourth kingdom that will challenge God’s purposes. In this session we examine how the book of Revelation relates to Daniel’s prophecy regarding this kingdom. Given how much emphasis Daniel and Revelation both place on this kingdom and the significant events associates with it, it is important that we understand this kingdom.
God has designed redemptive history so that the nature of ultimate good and ultimate evil is revealed in the leadership of two different men. God has done this because He chose to reveal His own nature to us as personally as possible by revealing Himself to us as a man and also chosen to reveal the depths of evil by revealing it in human form.
Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 both place their emphasis on a fourth kingdom that will challenge God’s purposes like no other kingdom in history. Given how much emphasis Daniel places on this kingdom and the significant events he associates with it, it is important that we understand this kingdom. There has been much debate on the nature of it, but we examine what the Scripture tells us about the timing and nature of this kingdom.
The more time I spend with Daniel the more and more it became apparent that the book of Daniel reveals our view of God and Scripture in a way that perhaps no other book does. God is specifically forcing an issue in Daniel – will we stand with the Word as prophesied or will we try to rescue God and make our faith more respectable by prematurely marking prophecies fulfilled or, even worse, shipwrecking our faith entirely by denying the ability of God to prophesy with precision through a man?
