Daniel 7 (Con't)

Mr. Berry, would you mind opening us up in a word of prayer? I want to ask that you would bless

Brother Mike as he opens the word. Bless the teaching, time, just make our hearts receptive to hear.

Open to Daniel chapter 7. I'm going to read 13 to the end of the chapter.

And I kept looking in the night vision, and behold, with the clouds of heaven, one like the Son of Man was coming.

And he came up to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people's nations and men of every language might serve him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away, and his kingdom is one which will not be destroyed.

And as for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me.

I approached one of those who were standing by and began asking him the exact meaning of all this.

And he told to me and made known to me the interpretation of these things, and these great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

But the saints of the highest one will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever and for all ages to come.

Then I desired to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, which devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet.

And the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up and before which three of them fell, namely the horn which had eyes with a mouth uttering great boast and which was greater in appearance than its associates.

I kept looking, and the horn was waging war with the saints. It was overpowering them until the

Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the highest one.

And the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom. Thus he said,

The fourth beast will be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth and tread down and crush it.

And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones, and he will subdue the three kings.

He will speak out against the Most High, he will wear down the saints of the highest one, and he will intend to make alterations in times and law, and there will be given into his hand for a time, a times, and a half a time.

But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, he will be annihilated and destroyed forever.

Then the sovereignty and the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the highest one.

His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the kingdoms will serve him and obey him. At this point the revelation ended, and as for me,

Daniel, my thoughts were greatly alarming me, and my face grew pale, but I kept the matter to myself.

So, we started looking at the Son of Man last week, so I do, we're probably going to spend more time looking who the

Son of Man is. Every time we read the Son of Man, we automatically go ahead and we know, who is the

Son of Man? We know that, but how do we know that? We don't know it from this text, we know it from other texts.

At this point, remember we had all the beasts. So, when we come to the Son of Man, hey, did you see that?

It came off the first time. Unbelievable. When we get to the

Son of Man, and these are all in lowercase, because that's really,

I know most of our translations say Son of Man, and everybody's capitalizing 13,

Son, most everybody? ESV, it's not. It's not? That's actually a more accurate.

Because we don't know who this person is, at this point, okay? Just forget the rest of the

Bible for a second. We don't know who this person is. This is a vision that's coming to Daniel.

He's seeing all these beast -like characters, and before, right? We have a lion, a leopard, what else?

I'm sorry, a lion, a bear, a leopard, and this hybrid. So, these are all beast -like kingdoms that come along and devour one another.

They don't care what they do. They eat up everything in its path. And this last one's going to come along, and it's going to not only eat up the others, it will devour and crush down and trample everything in its way.

But then in this vision, but suddenly this Son of Man comes to the

Ancient of Days. Well, we understand that the Son of Man is the fifth kingdom.

We agree? Do we all agree? That the motif that is set out in the structure of Daniel is a five kingdom structure.

Last kingdom being kingdom of Messiah. So that is how we do come to some of the conclusions that this is going to be the everlasting.

This is going to be the everlasting kingdom. But it's not beast -like.

It's not beast -like. But what have we heard at the end of it? What happens to this kingdom, though?

It's trampled down. It's persecuted. It's given over to be overcome by these other kingdoms that come along.

That's what it says. So, let's look at how we've come to the conclusion of the

Son of Man, who is coming, it says here in 13, that one like the

Son of Man, meaning like just a human being, that's how we should understand it.

This is going to be a human being that comes along, but he comes up to the Ancient of Days.

And I think I brought this up right towards the end of the class last week.

We should have an understanding that nobody can just approach God. Okay?

Can anybody just walk up to God? This man does. So we should have an understanding that this is no ordinary man.

This man walks up to the Ancient of Days and is presented before him. And what's given to that man?

Verse 14, what's given to him? Okay, keep going. Keep going.

So, he is giving an everlasting kingdom. This one doesn't come along and overpower with cruelty.

This one's actually, he goes up to the Ancient of Days and something is given to him.

Now, I'm going to say this right here has to do with the death, burial, resurrection, and exaltation of Jesus Christ.

I don't believe this is the millennial reign. And I know maybe some of your study Bibles may say, oh, this is when the millennial happens.

What is the clear problem with this being the millennial, the thousand -year millennial reign, other than I don't believe in it?

What would be the obvious? What's that?

Okay, it's not going to pass away. That is a huge one. The obvious is the direction.

Where's the Son of Man going? Up. He goes up.

And what's given to him? Okay, when Jesus comes down in Galilee, and we're going to look at that probably in Matthew 28, when he comes to Galilee, this is probably where the 500 see him, he comes down and he says, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

And then what does he tell his people to go do? Make disciples.

And he tells them how to do that. Baptizing, teaching, observing. And he gives them how to do that. So here it is.

Jesus, he comes, he does his Messianic works, which is purchasing people from every nation, tribe, and tongue.

Correct? That's what Jesus does with his own blood. Then he goes to the Ancient of Days. The Ancient of Days then gives him what he has purchased.

Gives it to them. And then what does Jesus do in return? He then gives his people the authority to go out and then collect that kingdom collectively over the course of redemptive history.

So, he says that they might serve him. Serve who?

Serve God. Yeah, serve God. And serve him and his dominion is an everlasting kingdom.

Look, once Jesus Christ accomplished the work on the cross, death, burial, resurrection, exaltation, and he is reigning and ruling, his kingdom will never end.

Now, we're going to see the little horn is going to wage war against the saints.

Okay? And we're going to see the connection with that at some point. You see the connection in Revelation chapter 13 that this horn wages war against the saints and is overcoming them until God comes, and we've read it here already, then

God comes and he makes a judgment. He says no more. It's done.

And he puts an end to it. But let's look at who this Son of Man is. I couldn't find, and there's other people in here probably more studious than me, but during the intertestamental time, right after the writing of Daniel, and could not find any rabbinical writings that pointed to this specific thing as being the

Messiah, immediate intertestamental time. But what we do know is that when

Jesus comes on the scene and begins to call himself the Son of Man, the

Pharisees pick up on that and go, he's claiming to be God. That we do know.

Now, I will, if you want to be technical, Jesus is kind of in that intertestamental time, technically speaking.

Okay? But when we don't have any, I couldn't find any, if somebody wants to look and see,

I couldn't find any rabbinical writing that the Son of Man was considered the Messiah at that time. But what

I do want you to do is turn your Bible over to Matthew, and we're going to see how this

Son of Man developed. Son of Man is,

I think, used 103 times in the Old Testament. Okay? But every time it's used, it's speaking of a mere man.

Even when it talks about this person in Daniel, it's speaking of a real man.

Okay? Not an exalted Messiah. He is speaking of a man because he's making the distinction.

When you get to the New Testament, it's used 100 times. Okay? I'm sorry.

83 times in the Gospels, 100 times in the New Testament, 83 times it's used in the

Gospels, every time it's used speaking of Jesus Christ. 83 times. 83 times.

This is Jesus Christ's self -designation of himself. Nobody called Jesus the

Son of Man. Except Stephen. You remember when

Stephen was stoned? Jesus had already been exalted and was sitting at the right hand of the Father.

He was dying as men were pelting him with bricks. And what did he say? Behold, I see the

Son of Man standing waiting for me. He was the only one that called him the

Son of Man. Now, as we look at, go to,

I think it's chapter 8. Yeah, chapter 8.

This is before he has called all of his disciples. So I think this is before the call of Levi, which was

Matthew. And this is a question on being a good disciple or what discipleship was going to cost him.

And I'll begin in verse 18. Now, when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to depart and go on the other side of the sea.

And then a scribe came up to him and he said to him, Teacher, I will go wherever you go.

And Jesus said this, The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests.

But the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. From my understanding, even chronologically, this is the first time

Jesus ever claims himself to be the Son of Man. This is the first. He says, But the

Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. And then another disciple said to him, Lord, permit me first to go to bury my father.

But Jesus said, Follow me and let the dead bury the dead. So here it is, the first time that Jesus is making a declaration,

I am the Son of Man. Jesus said, I'm not an ordinary man. I'm the

Son of Man. Now, is there a difference between the Son of God and the Son of Man?

There is, but I think that's where we're getting to that. Okay, go ahead.

I think that's where we're getting to the hypothetic union. He is human, he's fully human, but he's also fully

God. Yeah, and I've often asked myself when you read through the Gospels, Why didn't he just say it?

Why didn't he just say, I am the Son of the Living God?

Or why didn't he, he did at the end, say, I am the long -awaited Messiah. Why didn't he come and do that?

Matter of fact, I think we're going to get to one passage where he actually heals someone and he says,

Don't tell them I'm the Messiah. Don't tell them I'm the Messiah yet. It's like, wait a minute.

This messianic secret, this is what they've long awaited for. Jesus shows up on the scene and he's using this term that has never been used for an exalted man other than their understanding partially of what has come back from Daniel is that this is the long -awaited person that would usher in the everlasting kingdom.

But that is not how they understood it. So Jesus says here in chapter 8, he is the

Son of Man and he doesn't even have anywhere to lay his head. It's his humility. The Son of Man has to do with Jesus Christ's humility.

Jesus was a man and he was not a mere man, but he was humanity.

He was perfect man. And we have to remember, he was not some superhuman. Does everybody understand that?

Jesus was not a superhuman. He was fully God, fully man. But when he came into this world, he did everything he did as perfect man empowered by the

Holy Spirit. You cannot forget that. What happened at Jesus' baptism?

He goes up to John. He goes up to John and he said, are you raising your hand, baby?

You got a question? Tell me to hurry up, get on with it. He goes up to John.

He says, you got to baptize me. And John says, hold up, man. I can't do that.

I'm not even worthy to undo your sandal. And he says, no, no, no, this has to fulfill righteousness.

He had to be anointed by a prophet. That's how all prophets and kings that came along and priests were anointed by another prophet.

So Jesus comes along. He didn't need to be baptized because he was a baptism of repentance. He needed to do it so that he could be established as another, the forerunner, as a prophet so that the people could see he was a prophet.

The Holy Spirit had not yet empowered Christ that way. Okay, perfect man.

He's baptized. Then what happens? The Holy Spirit descends on him, empowering him to do his messy work for the next three, three and a half years.

And what's the first thing that the Holy Spirit does after he's baptized? Wilderness to be tested.

And how did he overcome? How did the Son of Man overcome the wiles of the devil in the wilderness?

What's that? By the power of the Spirit. He fought him with the

Word. Correct. He did. But how did he do it? As perfect man empowered by the

Holy Spirit. And we can't forget that. Jesus did everything that he did by the power of the

Spirit. Perfect man empowered by the Spirit. So now we get to another passage.

You probably don't, maybe now you'll have to turn a page. Look in verse 5 and 6 of Matthew chapter 9.

We'll back up a little bit. I'll start at the beginning of the chapter. It says, getting into a boat,

Jesus crossed over the sea and he came to his own city and they brought to him a paralytic laying on a bed.

Seeing their faith, whose faith did he see? It's interesting. Whose faith did he see?

The paralytics or the people that brought him? People that brought him. Yeah, seeing their faith.

He said, take courage son, your sins are forgiven. That was probably the happiest day of that man's life.

Imagine having the Lord Jesus, who cared if he even had legs, but to go, hey, your sins are forgiven.

And he says, your sins are forgiven. And some of the scribes said to themselves, this fellow blasphemes.

And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, imagine that. Jesus is like, let me drop the hammer on these guys.

I know what they're thinking. And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, why do you have evil in your hearts? Which is easier for you to say your sins are forgiven or to get up and walk?

Jesus puts them in a conundrum, doesn't he? Could they do either? No. So Jesus then says, but so that you may know that the son of man has authority on the earth to forgive sins.

He told the paralytic, get up, pick up your bed, and go home.

And he got up and went home. But when the crowd saw this, they were awestruck and glorified

God and had given him such authority to men. So it's at this point, Jesus is now saying, who is the son of man now?

He's God himself. Who has the power to forgive sins? Only God. Now, technically speaking, it's

God who gives people the power for healing. But we're going to see other people heal.

All his disciples go out. You remember, he sends out a bunch of them. And they healed everybody.

I think he even sends out 70. At one time, they went out and preached the gospel, and they were healing and casting out demons and all of that.

But all of that was to show that the kingdom of Messiah was here. That was what it was doing.

How were they able to do that? They were doing that because they had been given the administration of the

Spirit to go out and to do these works to show that the kingdom of Messiah was here.

Jesus is not just saying the kingdom of Messiah is here. He's saying the long -awaited man, the long -awaited son of David, the one that will sit on the throne forever and ever is here.

And how do you know that? Because I can not only tell a man to get up who's never walked before, tell him to get up, but I can also forgive his sins.

And they knew at this point that Jesus was claiming to be God. And why do we know that?

Because who has the power to forgive sins? Only God. So, turn over to chapter 11.

This is when he's dealing with questions towards John the Baptist. In verse 16, he says,

But what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in a marketplace who call out to other children and say,

We played a flute for you, and you did not dance. We sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.

For John neither came eating nor drinking, and they say he has a demon.

But the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they said, Behold, he is a gluttonous man and a drunkard and a friend of tax collectors.

Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds. So here it is, Jesus doing the exact, quote, opposite of what

John came and did. And he says, Look, now that the Son of Man is here, when John came,

John was doing messianic work too as a forerunner for the Messiah, preaching repentance and all that.

But now that the Messiah is here, the Son of Man, who already is the one who has the ability to forgive sins, you're saying,

I'm a drunkard and a glutton. So now they are blaspheming

Christ at this point. They have taken the Son of Man who has made a clear declaration of who

He was, Jesus Christ claiming to be God. There's a lot of, you'll talk to Muslims, you'll talk to some

Jehovah's Witness, and even Mormons that say, Jesus Christ never claimed to be

God. And that's baloney. That passage we read just backed up in chapter 8 and 9,

Jesus claiming to be God by saying He was the Son of Man because He had the power to forgive sins.

Now, if you're ever talking to a Muslim or a

Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon, they're going to say, Jesus Christ never said that. Well, I'm going to tell you what, if you're looking for those exact words,

I am God, worship me. You're not going to find that. Because when Jesus came into the world, that was not

His goal. Jesus' goal was to point people to who? God.

And then when He says, I've got to go away, I'm going to send the Spirit. What was the Spirit's responsibility?

Point you to Christ. You see? In the Godhead, each one has its role.

The Spirit would then regenerate someone, pointing them to Christ. Christ always pointed people to God.

Now, for someone to say that Jesus is not

God because He didn't use those terminologies, they're letting semantics damn them to hell. I'm just going to let you know that.

That's what they're doing. And you might remember that, Brian, when we were at Speaker's Corner, those

Muslims. You show me where Jesus ever said that, and I would bow. I said, dude, you're a liar, because even if I did show it, you wouldn't bow.

It's clear. You make those connections. Make those connections. Because even when we're going to get to one where the high priest, when he says it, the high priest says, this man has claimed to be

God, and he needs to be put to death. I said, so I told that Muslim guy, you might remember, they were all the militant.

They were out there. They were an awful militant. They were trying to convert people and take them to their little whatever it was over there in London.

And I said, you're going to take that right there. This Jewish high priest says that what

Jesus said, claiming to be God, was blasphemy, and that's not good enough for you.

And he said, no. I said, hell's going to be hot, brother. Hell's going to be hot.

So here it is. They have now called the Son of Man, who has already had the power to forgive sins, has the power to raise men up who were lame.

They have called him a sinner and a glutton. Now, chapter 12.

This just comes on the tail end of the questions on the Sabbath. They were doing what they weren't.

They believed that the disciples were doing something they shouldn't be doing. Yada, yada, yada. And Jesus says this about himself.

For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. What does that say? He's God.

Who's Lord of the Sabbath? Who set the Sabbath? What's that?

The Father did. Yeah, and he is saying here that the Son of Man, him, is

Lord of the Sabbath, equating his equality with God at this point. Look over to verse 31.

Same chapter. His continual disputes with the religious people.

You understand that that's all his disputes were, was with the religious people. Very seldom did

Jesus have an interaction with disputes like this with what we would say the common folk.

Now you might have where the feeding of the 5 ,000 in John where the dispute came of follow me or not.

But the dispute over the law and who Jesus was, was primarily with the religious leaders.

It says in verse 30, He who is not with me is against me.

And he who does not gather with me scatters. Therefore, I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people.

But the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. For whoever speaks a word against the

Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him either in this age or the age to come.

Once again, this is Jesus speaking. I don't have time to get into the unpardonable sin and all that today.

I don't. I just want you to know once again, this is Jesus once again claiming himself to be who?

The Son of Man. Yeah. Son of Man. God. Yep. Son of Man. Flip on over to I think it's chapter 13.

The Holy Spirit. Yep. Once again, you have, because I don't have to get into it too much, but once again, what was the

Holy Spirit's role? The Holy Spirit's role was to point to Christ. You can say something against me, but once the Holy Spirit points you to the

Son and you're rejecting the work of the Holy Spirit, what happens? You reject the work of the Holy Spirit. Thank you very much.

Yeah. Yeah. Correct.

We can get into unpardonable and how that works out and all that. I just don't have time to do that today. We'll do that in two years.

In 13 verse, we'll start in verse 36. When he left the crowds, he went into the house, and his disciples came to him and said,

Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field. And he said, The one who sows the good seed is what?

Son of man. Once again, who's the sower of the good news?

Jesus himself. Jesus himself. Turn over to chapter 16.

I'm scared to put this back on. Verse 16, we'll start at verse 13.

It says, Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he was asking his disciples.

Here's what he said. Who do people say the son of man is? And some say

John the Baptist. Others say Elijah.

Others say Jeremiah. Hey, why do you think they would say it was

Jeremiah? Anybody ever studied or read through the book of Jeremiah and why they would equate

Jesus as being Jeremiah? I would say partially that.

More so, when Jeremiah came onto the scene, he blasted the false teachers and the scribes and the

Pharisees. We don't see Jesus scribed a couple of times. They talk about him being the weeping prophet. But him and Jeremiah, they blasted the, well, in this case, this would have been the scribes and the

Pharisees. The scribes and the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Pharisees had not quite developed at Jeremiah's time.

But the false shepherds and the false teachers were. I mean, he was going in there saying, hey, you say peace, peace, peace when there is no peace.

God won't destroy this place. This is the temple of the Lord. And Jeremiah said, hey man, God's going to knock this thing to the ground.

What did Jesus say? The very same thing. What did they want to do to Jeremiah?

They wanted to kill him. Matter of fact, they tried for 41 years to kill him. Or 26 of that, they tried to kill him.

And what did they do to Jesus when he said, in three days, you tear down this temple, and in three days

I'll raise it up again. They wanted to kill him for that. Well, he says here, others say

Jeremiah. And then they just wrap it up with, all right, well, maybe just one of those prophets. And then he said, well, who do you say that I am?

In other words, who do you say the Son of Man is? And Peter said this, you are the

Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus said to him, blessed are you, son of Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my

Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock

I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it, and I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

And then he warned the disciples that, here it is, he warned the disciples that they should not tell anyone that he was the

Christ. That is always perplexing to me. And the whole nation of Israel had waited for the

Messiah, the long -awaited Christ, and Jesus said, don't tell them yet. Don't tell them yet.

But all these people, when he says who do men say the Son of Man is, they were saying all these things, but what did

Peter say? He said, you're God. You're God. You're the

Son of the living God. Peter knew that the Son of Man and the

Messiah, the Christ, the one who would be the exalted one who would reign in an everlasting kingdom, was

Jesus Christ. But don't tell anybody. Why did he say that?

It wasn't his time. That's exactly what I fully agree with.

That's probably, and I don't know for sure, I think that, in my opinion,

I think that Judas' intent was to force Jesus' hand into reigning in the kingdom that he had already said was not of this world, even when he stood before Pilate.

I think I said this last week. When he stood before Pilate and Pilate said, are you a king? He said, yes. You've said well.

But my kingdom's not of this world. If it were of this world, my people would come and fight for me. But my kingdom's not of this world.

Jesus knew at this time he was not going to set up the kingdom. I'll even say this. Even after Jesus' resurrection, he spent 40 days with them, teaching them, eating with them.

Peter, James, and John come to him. I think it's at the beginning of Acts. And he says, hey, so is this going to be the time you're going to restore the kingdom to Israel?

And what did Jesus say? And none of your business. None of your business.

Understand, the spirit had not been given yet. Okay? The spirit had not been given. You know, once the spirit of the

Holy Spirit came in Pentecost, once it came, never once, I know this, never once is it talked about an earthly kingdom.

Now, you can say, that don't say a whole bunch. It speaks loudly from silence. Hey, his disciples never talked about a kingdom in Palestine ever again.

They never talked about it. High and low, far and wide, they never talk about an earthly kingdom raised up, ruling from Jerusalem in Palestine for a thousand years or anything else.

They never speak of it again. Yeah? Yeah.

And I do believe that they thought at that time that it was going to be the heel of the

Messiah that was going to physically crush the heel of Rome. I think that's how they thought. I mean, what did

David do? When David come along, the long -awaited king, God's king, what did he do to his subjects around him?

He subdued them. Yeah, and that's what they were waiting. And Jesus was the long -awaited son of David, but their understanding of how he was going to do that was vastly different.

And I do wonder, why didn't he tell them what he told Pilate? Maybe he did.

I mean, he told Peter when he cut off Malchus' ear. He said, hey, don't you know I could dispatch thousands of angels right now and waste all of this?

Put it up. So, now turn over to chapter 17.

17, Matthew 17. This is after the

Mount of Transfiguration. Jesus came up to them and he said, get up, do not be afraid.

This is in verse 9, and then he says, coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, tell the vision to no one until the

Son of Man has risen from the dead. Hey, I think that part of him rising from the dead went right over their head.

Because you know how many times that Jesus, as it gets closer to him going to Jerusalem, he says, hey, I'm fixing to be delivered over.

And then, boop! The only time you got Peter one time saying basically over my dead body.

And then he calls the first pope, Jesus calls the first pope, Satan. That's no way to talk to the first pope.

He says, tell this to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead. So, what is he saying about the

Son of Man here? He's got not only the power to raise from the dead, but he's going to have the power to raise himself up from the dead.

Okay? And then he says, in verse 11, Elijah is coming and will restore all things.

But I say to you, Elijah has already come, speaking of John the Baptist. And they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished.

So also, here it is, what they did to John the Baptist, what did they do to John the Baptist?

They cut his head off. And why did they cut his head off? Because the girl that did the stripping dance didn't like John the

Baptist because he had called out her mother for sleeping with Herod, and she said,

I want his head. So, because he continually called out, I think it was Philip the Tetrarch, called him out for sleeping with his brother's wife, and had the girl do the little dance.

And after that, and it wasn't a Macarena, she said,

I'll give you up to half my kingdom. And she said, okay, no problem.

I'll take John the Baptist's head on the platter. And you remember, Herod actually loved

John. It says that he loved John. He would call John out of the prison to come talk to him.

He liked John. But because he was a coward, what did he do? One, two things.

I think he was a coward, and he was motivated by sexual desires to give her what she wanted.

And he said they did whatever they wanted to do to him, did to him as they wished. So also it will be to the

Son of Man it will go into suffer into their hands. So here it is. He's saying already right here, not only am

I the one that has the power to forgive sins, I have the power to raise the dead, I have the power to do all this stuff, but the same men that did this to John the

Baptist, they're going to do the same thing to the Son of Man. So now we've got, oh wow, this messianic figure that has come into the world is now going to suffer.

Then you look up to verse 22. He says,

And while they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man is going to be delivered up into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.

And in the progression, I think this is the first time in the

Gospels that this is given actual details. Like, hey, we're going to go, this is going to happen, they're going to kill me, and on the third day

I'm going to rise again. He gives them specific details of how that's going to take place. And once again, it says right here,

They were deeply grieved, but what happens? It goes on by the wayside.

Look at a couple more before we've got to get out of here. Look over to chapter 19.

Yes, sir. I've got one question, and this has said this last week.

Didn't Daniel pick up that this was the Son of Man?

Do you think he picked up on that? That this was the Messiah? Not real sure, because at this point, the

Son of Man was used several times in Ezekiel's, but you've got to remember they were contemporary. I don't know if they were talking.

So I'm not sure. Did Daniel understand that this was going to be the one that was going to reign in an everlasting kingdom?

Yes, but he certainly wouldn't have had this idea. The suffering servant coming was unheard of.

That's why the Jewish people reject Isaiah 53 even now. There's no way that the

Messiah is going to suffer. So did Daniel understand that?

I'm not sure. We have several times in this book. He's going to say, you've got to tell me.

As a matter of fact, he said it as we read. He asked one, it says, the one that was standing there, well,

I see that as being one of the angels. He says, hey, can you tell me what this is?

And all he does, go ahead. The only indication he would have had was that this Son of Man did ascend before the

Ancient of Days and was given this kingdom in the presence, you can call it, of the

Ancient of Days. So he knew it wasn't going to be. In order for it to be everlasting, it wasn't going to be like the previous kingdoms.

Right, beast -like. This is going to be a kingdom of people. People that were going to love and serve him.

What did they do to these other kingdoms? They just came in and they were absorbed. Whatever king came along or kingdom, they were just absorbed into the other.

And if you didn't submit, what did they do? They killed you. Well, right here, the Son of Man's kingdom is not going to be by the sword.

It's going to be through love and compassion. It is not beast -like.

Chapter 19, verse, I think it's 27.

And Peter said to him, But behold, we have left everything and followed you.

And then, I'm sorry, we have left everything and followed you. What then will there be for us?

And Jesus said, Truly I say to you, that you have followed me in the regeneration when the

Son of Man will be sitting in his glorious throne. So, to what you were saying,

Stephen, I believe now these disciples are starting making the connection to Daniel.

Okay? I certainly know the high priest does. I'm hoping we can get there. We've only got just a couple of minutes to where the high priest does.

So here it is. What's the Son of Man going to do? He's going to sit on the glorious throne.

Hey, what happened to the Ancient of Days? He goes to the Ancient of Days. We're not talking about Jack. We're going...

He goes to the Ancient of Days, which is God himself, and that Son of Man is given the kingdom, and then he rules and reigns that through his people.

I believe that's what Jesus is saying here to them. Now, did they make the connection to Daniel?

I don't know. I don't know. I mean, we don't know everything that Jesus said to his disciples for those three and a half years.

I mean, even John says all his works and deeds and everything he said and all the people he healed, the books of the world couldn't contain it.

Chapter 20, verse 18. He says, And behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the

Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. He's giving them more information. Now, the Son of Man is going up.

He's going to be delivered to the chief priests, the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and then he'll be handed over to the Gentiles to be mocked, scourged, crucified, and on the third day, raised again.

Jesus is now giving them more detail of what's going to take place. What's that?

And then expounded on it. Hey, first it was going to be the scribes and the Pharisees. They were going to do it, but now he's saying they're going to condemn me, but then they're going to give me over to the

Gentiles. They're going to scourge me, and then they're going to crucify me. But hey, third day,

I'm going to raise again. Right over their head. Right over their head. And then in verse 28, he says, just as the

Son of Man did not come into the world to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. The Son of Man is to save, to come in and to seek and save that which is lost.

Let me, so we can get out of here. Let me flip over to, I think it's chapter 26, where he's talking to Caiaphas.

Okay. Okay. Verse 62, then the high priest stood up and he said to him, do you not answer?

They've already asked him if he's a Christ. And he said, hey, you can destroy the temple of God in three days. He said, do you not answer me?

What is it that these men are testifying against you? But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest said to him,

I adjourn you under the living God. Imagine that, you're talking to God incarnate.

Yeah. I adjourn you to the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the son of God.

And Jesus said to him, you have said it yourself. But nevertheless, hereafter, when you see the son of man sitting at the right hand of the power and the coming in the clouds of heaven, and he says this, then the high priest tore his robe.

He says, blasphemed. What further testimony do we need of any witnesses?

Behold, you have now heard this man has blasphemed. He deserves death. And they slapped him, spat him in the face and prophesy to us, you are the

Christ. Who is the one who hit you? So what did the high priest at that point makes the connection?

He says he's the son of God. He's the son of man. He is now what? A blasphemer?

Because nobody could be that. So to say now the son of man has developed over the course of the

Gospels that we understand now that the son of man in Daniel is none other than Jesus Christ himself.

That's how we understand that. If we didn't have any of this and we just had Daniel, would we know who the son of man was?

No. There's no way. So that's how we know that's who the son of man is.

And we've got to go. Quick answer. So you have said it so.

Yep. To me, maybe this is 100 % agree with you.

Oh, when Jesus said you have said it? Yeah. Why didn't he just say yes? Because that's not how they answered. Okay. Yeah.

Hey, Jesus said the same thing to Pilate. When he says, are you Christ? You have said it. Yeah, you have said well.

100%, whatever. Yeah. All right. What you have said is correct. Okay. Yeah. You pray us out.

Yeah. Yes. Father God, thank you so much for your word. Thank you for your son who came to this earth to die for sinners.

Thank you so much that we can study that, that we can dive deep into it, and that we can pull out the truth of it.

I pray now that as we go our time of worship, that it be pleasing to you in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Amen.