His Throne described as a "fiery flame" issuing
forth a "fiery stream" (Daniel 7:9-10) alludes to His return in judgment with the "flaming fire"
of vengeance (II Thessalonians 1:7-9), which will "sift the nations" (Isaiah 30:27-28)
Attending Messiah's Throne will be "ten thousand
times ten thousand" (100,000,000) angels (Daniel 7:10) who wiil accompany Messiah at His return when He shall "sit upon
the Throne of His Glory" (Matthew 25:31)
At His return "the judgment" will be "set"
and "the books" will be "opened" (Daniel 7:10)
God keeps a "book of remembrance" concerning
His people - "them that feared the Lord, and thought upon His Name" (Malachi 3:16-17)
Afterwards, Messiah seated upon "the Throne of His
Glory" - there will occur "the judgment" of those who remain of "the nations" (Matthew 25:31-33)
- the righteous (those who treated His brethren well) who go into "life eternal" (Matthew 25:34-40,46)
and the wicked (those who treated His brethren NOT well) who go into "everlasting fire" (Matthew 25:41-46)
In Messiah's kingdom, those that are left of the nations
will be required to make an annual pilgrimmage at the Feast of Tabernacles to worship Israel's King (Zechariah 14:16-19)
and on their way out they will be reminded of those who transgressed by the abhorrent sight of their burning with
unquenchable fire (Isaiah 66:22-24)
The "rest of the beasts" (Daniel 7:12),
i.e. the kings making up the other three beasts (Daniel 7:4-6), will have "their dominion taken away", but their lives will
be "prolonged for a season" (Daniel 7:12) - they will be Messiah's prisoners, "shut up in the prison"
awaiting judgment (Isaiah 24:21-23)
The execution of their judgment will be an honor bestowed
on Messiah's saints (Psalms 149:6-9), i.e. Israel's Tribulation overcomers who are promised to share with
Messiah in the ruling of the nations with "a rod of iron" (Revelation 2:26-27)
"The Son of Man" is brought by the "Clouds
of Heaven" to "the Ancient of Days" (Daniel 7:13)
"The Son of Man" is a Messianic title in His
relation to the earth: At His First Coming to earth, "the Son of Man hath NOT where to lay His head"
(Matthew 8:20); but at His Second Coming to earth, the "Son of Man" has
"on His head a golden crown" (Revelation 14:14)
"The Ancient of Days" is a Divine title describing
He Who is Everlasting, i.e. having NO beginning and NO ending (Psalms 90:2) and is applied to BOTH the Father (Daniel 7:13) and the Son (Daniel 7:9 cf. Revelation 1:13-14)
"The Son of Man" is seen receiving His earthly
inheritance from His Father (Daniel 7:13-14) as promised by His Father (Psalms 2:6-8)
The kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of
the Lord and of His Christ "in the days of the voice of the seventh angel" (Revelation 10:7; Revelation 11:15)
Daniel was grieved in both spirit and body concerning
the visions of his head which troubled him (Daniel 7:15)
These visions were all introduced by the words "I
saw" and included the vision of the four beasts and particularly the first three beasts (Daniel 7:2-6),
the vision of particularly the fourth beast and its judgment along with the judgment of the other three beasts
(Daniel 7:7-12), and the vision of the everlasting kingdom glory of "the Son of
Man" (Daniel 7:13-14)
Daniel turned in his distress to "one of them that
stood by" to learn "the truth of all this" (Daniel 7:16)
The one who taught Daniel to "know the interpretation
of the things", i.e. the visions (Daniel 7:15), was one of the angelic host ("clouds of heaven") that stood
near "the Son of Man" (Daniel 7:13)
Daniel's angelic instructor is repeatedly stated to be
the angel (the man) Gabriel (Daniel 8:15-16; Daniel 9:21-22),
who besides Michael was one of only two angelic princes who remained faithful to God (Daniel 10:19-21)
Daniel's angelic instructor informs him that the four
beasts in his visions are four kings which shall arise out of the earth (Daniel 7:17) in the area of "the great sea" (Daniel 7:2), i.e. Israel's western border, the Mediterranean Sea (Numbers 34:6)
The name "Mediterranean" means "middle
of the earth" - a very fitting description for the area surrounding Israel, which is the land bridge joining
three continents (Europe, Asia, Africa)
The Kingdom of the Saints of the Most High (Daniel 7:18)
Daniel's angelic instructor assures Daniel that despite
the brutal oppression of Daniel's people by these four beasts, it will be Daniel's people (the saints) who will
eternally possess the kingdom (Daniel 7:18 cf. Daniel 7:22,27) and that Daniel will stand with his people at the end of the "Great
Tribulation" days (Daniel 12:1,11-13)