All peoples, nations and languages will be brought under his rule. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, …”ĭaniel 7 speaks of ‘the Son of Man’ being publicly enthroned at God’s right hand. His Jewish hearers would have understood this as the fulfilment of the prophecy of Daniel 7:13f: “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came from the Ancient of Days and he was presented before him. People will faint with fear and foreboding… at strange and forbidding events, he says.įurthermore, he speaks his return as the coming of ‘the Son of Man’. The words about signs in sun and moon and stars are apocalyptic language, speaking of times to come in a highly metaphorical form of expression. In Luke chapter 21 we read his prediction of events before his return: “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, …” (21:25). In Luke 21:25-28 we are taken to another of Jesus’ key predictions. The first was accompanied with joy, the second with fear and anger – which led to war. We saw this with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and with the destruction of the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001. There are times when unexpectedly, momentous upheavals occur – events that can impact the course of history. And now centuries have passed and nothing has happened. Certainly, the idea of him bursting through the skies in a blazing display of power and glory, doesn’t come easily. From New Testament times anyone who has said that Jesus Christ will return one day has been considered crazy.
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