Ouden van Dagen: mensenkinderen & rijke fantasie.

(DB) We have been told, however, that there is more than one throne there, and sure enough a second divine figure, in form "like a human being," is brought on the clouds of heaven and invested by the Ancient of Days in a ceremony very much like the passing of the torch from elder king to younger in Ancient Near Eastern royal ceremonial and the passing of the older gods to younger ones in their myths:
"I saw in the vision of the night, and behold with the clouds of the Heaven there came one like a Son of Man and came to the Ancient of Days and stood before him and brought him close, and to him was given rulership and the glory and the kingdom, and all nations, peoples, and languages will worship him. His rulership is eternal which will not pass, and his kingship will not be destroyed."

We can begin to see here a notion about redemption that is quite different from the expectation of the restoration of a Davidic king on the throne of Yerushalayim. What this text projects is a second divine figure to whom will be given eternal domination of the entire world of a restored entire world in which this eternal king's guidance and rule will be in accord, completely and finally, with the will of the Ancient of Days as well!

Although this Redeemer figure is not called the messiah ~ this name for him will have to wait for later reflections on this Dani'elic vision, as we shall see now like we saw before (many times!) ~ it brings us close to at least some of the crucial characteristics of the figure named later the Messiah or the Christ!

What are these characteristics?


He is divine.
He is in human form.
He may very well be portrayed as a younger-appearing divinity than the Ancient of Days.
He will be enthroned on high.
He is given power and dominion, even sovereignty on earth.

All of these are characteristics of Jesus the Christ as he will appear in the Gospels, and they appear in this text more than a century and a half BEFORE the birth of Yehoshua!

Moreover, they have been further developed within Jewish tradition between the Book of Dani'el & the Gospels.

At a certain point these traditions became merged in Jewish minds with the expectation of a return of a Davidic king, & the idea of a divine-human Messiah was born ~~~
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