Daniel 7:27

27. The saints receive “the kingdom” because their leader has received it. The description here of the kingdom of the Most High is word for word a description of the kingdom of the “one like a son of man.” (See note Daniel 7:14.) Behrmann is probably right in saying that the Jews themselves did not discriminate between the ruler and the nation as we do, yet, as he shows, it would be as inconsistent to say because of this verse that the Son of man is identical with the Jewish nation as to compare Daniel 2:44, with Daniel 2:34, and say that the stone designated the Jewish people. Daniel 7:14 speaks of a God-sent King, and this verse shows what the people gained through him. Of course the full meaning of this prophecy could not have been understood when it was written. It is a mistake to think that the best fulfillment of prophecy always lay in the mind of the prophet. He might speak of trouble near at hand, and a national deliverance soon to come; but in God’s providence the complete realization of what he saw and hoped could only come through the spiritual and Messianic kingdom and its spiritual prince. As in so many other Bible passages (compare Ezekiel 34:27-31; Ezekiel 37:26; Ezekiel 39:25-29), the immediate hope broadens into the vision of a world-wide victory for God and his people.