Daniel 7:14

14. This prophecy could never be fulfilled by any merely Jewish king or Jewish nation. These are the same expressions used of the kingdom of Daniel’s God (Daniel 2:44; Daniel 4:3; Daniel 4:34; Daniel 6:26). He who has the appearance as the likeness of a man (Ezekiel 1:26) is now seen coming in the cloud chariot of Jehovah to take rule over the world. Dr. Terry says: “His receiving dominion and glory and a kingdom is explained in John 5:22; John 5:27, ‘The Father hath given all judgment unto the Son, and he gave him authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of man;’ so too in Matthew 28:18, ‘There has been given to me all authority in heaven and upon earth.’” It is not to be supposed that the Christian era lay open before the author of Daniel and that he saw Jesus when he uttered these words. The prophets often spake more wisely than they knew. That this prophecy refers to Christ’s first coming to set up the New Testament “kingdom of heaven,” and not to his inauguration as King after the universal Resurrection and General Judgment, Professor Cowles has satisfactorily and thoroughly established.