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Scott's Reference Library
November 23, 2003 | November 26, 2006 | November 22, 2009
Daniel 7:9 through Daniel 7:10 (NIV)
9“As I looked,
“thrones were set in place,
and the Ancient of Days took his seat.
His clothing was as white as snow;
the hair of his head was white like wool.
His throne was flaming with fire,
and its wheels were all ablaze.
10 A river of fire was flowing,
coming out from before him.
Thousands upon thousands attended him;
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
The court was seated,
and the books were opened.
Daniel 7:13 through Daniel 7:14 (NIV)
13“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. 14He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all
peoples, nations and men 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.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-14
God gives Daniel a foresight of the destruction of other kingdoms, which in
their day were as powerful as that of Babylon. Could we foresee the changes that
shall be when we are gone, we should be less affected with changes in our own
day. The ram with two horns was the second empire, that of Media and Persia. He
saw this ram overcome by a he-goat. This was Alexander the Great. Alexander,
when about thirty-three years of age, and in his full strength, died, and showed
the vanity of worldly pomp and power, and that they cannot make a man happy.
While men dispute, as in the case of Alexander, respecting the death of some
prosperous warrior, it is plain that the great First Cause of all had no more of
his plan for him to execute, and therefore cut him off. Instead of that one
great horn, there came up four notable ones, Alexander’s four chief captains. A
little horn became a great persecutor of the church and people of God. It seems
that the Mohammedan delusion is here pointed out. It prospered, and at one time
nearly destroyed the holy religion God’s right hand had planted. It is just with
God to deprive those of the privileges of his house who despise and profane
them; and to make those know the worth of ordinances by the want of them, who
would not know it by the enjoyment of them. Daniel heard the time of this
calamity limited and determined; but not the time when it should come. If we
would know the mind of God, we must apply to Christ, in whom are hid all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge; not hid from us, but hid for us. There is
much difficulty as to the precise time here stated, but the end of it cannot be
very distant. God will, for his own glory, see to the cleansing of the church in
due time. Christ died to cleanse his church; and he will so cleanse it as to
present it blameless to himself.