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Posted 01-06-2015 at 07:23 AM by snowduck
Daniel 7:13-14 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. This scripture was written hundreds of years before Christ walked on the Earth. And people should have known who he was, yet few he came into contact with seemed to have a full grasp of who he really was. To many he was little more than an outspoken cult leader who was teaching differently than the mainstream religious leaders were, and he ate and slept like a regular person did. There were even times when some of Christ's disciples seemed to be unsure of who he really was. Maybe it was Christ's lifestyle that threw some people off. He certainly didn't seem like the Messiah they were expecting, and he even described himself as what we would call homeless (Matthew 8:20 - Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”) and he often acted like a servant to people (Philippians 2:7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.) Christ led a simple life because he chose to. When we look at Daniel 7:13-14 we see "another" Christ, one that shows us what he is really like, with authority and everlasting dominion. After his resurrection Christ went back to his heavenly home to be with the father he was with before he came here to be the Savior of the world (John 1:1-2, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.) Christ left his throne to live here as a common man and die on a cross to provide the free gift of eternal life to anyone who will take it, something no one else could do. What About Jesus?
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