_DANIEL’S VISION_ ‘My vision by night.’ Daniel 7:2 I. FORTY YEARS AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM, THE PROPHET BEHOLDS IN VISION THE SAME SERIES OF KINGDOMS.—The king saw a graphic representation of their strength and splendour declining from gold to iron; the prophet beheld emblems of their rapacit... [ Continue Reading ]
_JUDGMENT_ ‘The judgment was set, and the books were opened.’ Daniel 7:10 Judgments on particular nations are but types of the last judgment of all. The terrible visitation on Jerusalem, and the final coming of the Judge, are interwoven in the prophetic words of our Lord, as given by the Evangeli... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN_ ‘As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they br... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE HUMAN COMEDY_ ‘These great beasts, which are four … kings.’ Daniel 7:17 ‘The age of the quadruped is to go out, the age of brain and heart is to come in,’ wrote Emerson. Is not that the pith of Daniel’s vision? ‘And thus the land of Camelford was waste, Thick with wet woods and many a beas... [ Continue Reading ]