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The people -
and especially its leadership -
we into exile in Babylonia, and even
when they were allowed to come back, less than
a century later, there was no more Davidic Kingdom & no
glorious king ruling Yerushalayim. The people prayed for such a king
to rule over them once again and for a restoration of that earthly glory. It is,
however, still an earthly and actual king for whom the people pray throughout the Hebrew Bible,
for a restoration of the House of David as or was before the Exile. In this prayer for an absent king,
for a new king of the House of David, the seeds, however are planted of the notion of a promised Redeemer,
a new King David whom G d would send at 'the end of days'?! THAT notion
would come to fruition in the time of the Second Temple!

When Mark in the beginning of his Gospel writes,
'THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF G D,'
'the Son of G d means the human Messiah, using the old title for the king of the House of David.
When, on the other hand, Mark refers to him in the second chapter of the Gospel as the
"Son of Man,"
he is pointing to the divine nature of the Christ. This seems like a paradox:
the name of G d being used for Jesus' human nature, the name of "Man" for his divine nature.

How did it come about?

We are still trying, even after almost 2000 years to ear-nestly begin
to answer these questions of how Jesus was understood as 'g d' by monotheistic Jews
by telling the story of the Son of Man.

The Messiah Son of G d as Human King? The Son of Man as Divine Redeemer? Sons/daughters of Gods & sons/daughters of man(kind)?!

While the expectation of the restoration of the Davidic king was growing,
all kinds of other ideas about redemption were developing in Israel as well! In the seventh chapter of the book of Dani'el, written circa 162 BC, we find a remarkable apocalyptic story. APOCALYPSE is also a Greek-derived word that means "revelation" (the New Testament book that we call Revelation
is also known as the Apocalypse).

Generally in an apocalypse,
the things that are revealed have to do with the end of days,
with what will happen at the end of time & the end of the world.

The book of Dani'el is one of the earliest apocalypses that was ever written.
Taking its clues from the prophet Ezeki'el, it describes the heavenly visions of the prophet Daniël.
The book was written sometime during the second century BC & became one of the most influential books
for latter-day Jewry, including, perhaps even especially, in its Christian branch. In this remarkable text,
we find the prophet Daniël having a vision in which there are two divine figures, one
who is depicted as an old man, an Ancient
of Days, sitting on the
throne
...

Obviously it's
about powers occupying our
minds and homesteads
here &
now ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~