sovereigngrace
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Why is it that in other threads you seemed to be radically opposed to Preterist interpretations of Scriptures, when you are basically doing the same thing with Daniel 7 that Preterists apparently do with it?
Daniel 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
In your view none of this involves Revelation 13 and the final 42 months in this age, correct?
Daniel 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
This has to be the interpretation of something earlier mentioned in Daniel 7, obviously.
The only think I can think of would be the following.
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
You then think the fulfillment of verses 9-12, the interpretation of verse 22, occurred thousands of years ago rather than is future still? What about verse 11, what I have underlined, how does one reasonably demonstrate that that has already been fulfilled in the past?
I agree with both at times and I disagree with both at times. Both are fixated with either the past or the future. The balance involves both.
Daniel 7:9-10 depicts the general judgment at the end. It sees Christ appear in all His glory sitting upon a throne in order to exercise the final judgment of mankind. In Revelation 20, John expressly declares, “I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it.” In Daniel 7 we learn, “the ancient of days did sit … his throne was like the fiery flame. Also, in both passages we learn that this is the exact point in time when the living and the dead stand before the throne and are judged. Revelation 20 continues, “I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened.” Daniel 7 similarly says, “and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”
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