
I don’t have time to play on X all day. I’ll leave you with a couple thoughts:
1. Daniel 7 (and much more in Daniel) is absolutely about Jesus. Jesus identifies Himself as the Son of Man over 80 times across all 4 Gospels. The Jews to whom Jesus was speaking knew right away that He was claiming to be “one like a son of man” from Daniel 7. This Son of Man comes on the clouds of Heaven, an act reserved only for Yahweh. By giving Himself the title “Son of Man”, Jesus infuriated the Jews because He made Himself out to be God. Again, a 21st century Muslim can’t see this, but 1st century Jews did instantly and wanted Him killed over this.
2. In both the original Aramaic and the later Greek of the Septuagint, the words used for the “worship” of this Son of Man are reserved for God. In Aramaic, the word pelach is used by Daniel only for serving a deity - the God of Israel worshipped earlier in Daniel and the worship given to false gods by pagans. In either case it involves serving/worshipping a deity. Daniel could have used other words like shimesh to show honor being given to a mere human. And when the Jews translated Daniel 7 into Greek, they used the word latreuo, which is for service/worship of God. That with this Son of Man riding the clouds of Heaven shows that He is divine. Psalms 18, 68 and 104 all show Yahweh riding the clouds, which shows it as a divine act. The Son of Man in Daniel is identified as riding the clouds, and therefore shown as Yahweh. And Jesus’ statement about Himself coming on the clouds of Heaven shows that He is this divine Son of Man. One of the main points about this figure being identified by Daniel as “one like a son of man” is because it was a mystery to Daniel as to why what looked like a mere man was worshipped as a God and performing an act (riding the clouds) reserved for God.
3. Final thought - Thomas’ exclamation of “my Lord and my God” couldn’t be more clear. It’s John’s bookend - he shows Jesus’ divinity at the beginning of his Gospel and now at the end as His Apostles come to fully realize this. And so many places in between we see this as well.
That’s all for me with you two clowns. Get off the keyboard and go see the world a little.
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