STRANGER THINGS – LITTLE BIG HORN
DANIEL 7
“DANIEL 7 HAS BEEN CALLED THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND DETAILED PROPHECY OF FUTURE EVENTS TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.”
S. LEWIS JOHNSON
DANIEL 1-6 IS NARRATIVE AND PERSONAL,
DANIEL 7-12 IS APOCALYPTIC AND COSMIC,
“FROM CHAPTER 7 ON, THE BOOK (DANIEL) IS DIFFERENT. IT DOESN’T CONTINUE THE CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS, BUT REVERTS BACK IN TIME TO A SERIES OF VISIONS THAT DANIEL HAD. IT’S NOT HISTORY, IT IS PROPHECY. IN A SENSE, THE FIRST HALF OF THE BOOK GIVES THE CREDENTIALS OF THE PROPHET, THE RELIABILITY OF THE MESSENGER. THE SECOND HALF GIVES THE MESSAGE. NOW, THE MESSAGE OF CHAPTER 7 THROUGH CHAPTER 12 IS REALLY NOT NEW … IT IS THE MESSAGE THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN.”
DAN DUNCAN
DAVID HELM SAYS OF DANIEL 7-12, “STORY TELLING GIVES WAY TO MOVIE WATCHING.”
SO …
Vv.1-7, 8 JUNGLE BOOK …
A LION WITH EAGLE’S WINGS, Vv.4
A BEAR WITH THREE RIBS IN ITS MOUTH, Vv.5
A LEOPARD WITH FOUR WINGS AND FOUR HEADS, Vv.6
A DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE BEAST, Vv.7
Vv.8, 9-14, JUDGEMENT DAY …
THE CAST OF CHARACTERS:
THE ANTI-CHRIST,
THE ANCIENT OF DAYS,
THE SON OF MAN,
“THE EXPRESSION SON OF MAN APPEARS TO BE THE VIRTUAL EQUIVALENT OF ‘MAN’ BUT WHEN ‘ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN’ APPEARS THE TITLE HAS PARTICULAR RATHER THAN GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE. THIS IS THE TRUE MAN IN CONTRAST TO THE MAN-BECOME-BEAST IN THE EARLIER ELEMENTS OF THE VISION. THIS IS THE ONE WHO IS ABLE TO STAND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE GOD WHOSE THRONE IS MADE OF THE FIRE OF HIS JUDGEMENT. THIS IS THE ONE WHO IS WORTHY TO RECEIVE ‘DOMINION AND GLORY AND A KINGDOM, THAT ALL PEOPLES, NATIONS AND LANGUAGES SHOULD SERVE HIM. HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING DOMINION.’ THIS IS THE TRUE MAN IN ALL THAT HUMANS AS GOD’S IMAGE WERE MEANT TO BE BUT FAILED TO BE.”
SINCLAIR FERGUSON
“A VISION THAT BEGAN LIKE A NIGHTMARE AND MONSTERS COMING OUT OF THE SEA, ENDS HAPPILY AND HOPEFULLY WITH A MAN COMING OUT OF HEAVEN WHOM GOD CROWNS SOVEREIGN OVER THE WORLD!”
DAN DUNCAN
Vv.15-28, THE JUSTICE LEAGUE
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AN ETERNAL KINGDOM, Vv.15-18
HEBREWS 2:5-18
THE ENEMIES OF GOD AND THE SUFFERING OF EARTH WILL ONLY LAST A SHORT TIME, Vv.19-26
THE KINGDOM SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH, Vv.27-28
APPLICATION
