The clear identity of Jesus The cloud rider as God

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The Son of Man Coming With The Clouds of Heaven

• The clear identity of Jesus The cloud rider
  as God

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Introduction

• In a previous lesson we looked at the nature of
  Jesus and John 11.
• We saw how many are deceived by mans teachings
  about the limited and/or unscriptural view of
  Jesus.
• We also saw through the Scriptures that Jesus
  was God as noted through the text in John 11
  and the overall teaching found in the Bible.

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Introduction

• In this lesson we will focus more closely on
  another passage of scripture which will enrich
  our faith in Jesus, as part of the Godhead.
• We will see a prophetic picture with Jesus coming
  to the Father at His throne, but what a divine
  manner in which He approached the throne!
• We will also see this Son of Man in the New
  Testament Scriptures who makes it explicitly
  clear that He was Divine which, in fact, cost
  Him his earthly life.

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Background

• Daniels dream and visions. Dan. 71-3
• Dream (singular) The totality and unity of all
  the visions.
• Visions (plurality) The distinction of each of
  the revelations within the dream.
• Four beasts stirred to come up out of the sea
  each representing a king (and his kingdom). Dan.
  73, v. 17

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Background

• Visions of each king/kingdom. Dan. 74-8
• Lion Babylonian empire. v. 4
• Bear Medes and Persians. v. 5
• Leopard Grecian. v. 6
• A fourth beast Roman. v. 7-8

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Background

• A fifth and final kingdom is coming. v. 9-12
• I kept looking as if time has gone on and Daniel
  was waiting what would happen next (Period of
  Silence?)
• Thrones set up The Ancient of Days takes his
  seat The court takes their seat books opened.
  v. 9-10
• Fourth beast (with horn) judged and destroyed
  rest of the beasts have their dominion taken away.

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Background

• Vision of the Ancient of Days. Dan. 713-14
• The Son of Man came up and was presented to Him
  (The Ancient of Days). v. 13
• Dominion given to the Son of Man the fifth
  kingdom that will rule over all kingdoms of the
  earth. v. 14

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Son of Man Coming With the Clouds of Heaven

• Syrian (Ugarit) writings The Cloud Rider.
• Throughout the Ugaritic texts (at least 1200
  BCE), Baal is repeatedly called the one who
  rides the clouds, or the one who mounts the
  clouds.
• The description is recognized as an official
  title of Baal. No angel or lesser being bore the
  title.
• As such, everyone in Israel who heard this title
  associated it with a deity, not a man or an angel.

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Son of Man Coming With the Clouds of Heaven

• Syrian (Ugarit) writings The Cloud Rider.
• Part of the literary strategy of the Israelite
  prophets was to take this well-known title and
  attribute it to Yahweh in some way.
• Consequently, Yahweh, the God of Israel, bears
  this descriptive title in several places in the
  Old Testament (Isaiah 191 Deuteronomy 3326
  Psalm 6833 1043).
• For a faithful Israelite, then, there was only
  one god who rode on the clouds Yahweh.

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Son of Man Coming With the Clouds of Heaven

• Syrian (Ugarit) writings The Cloud Rider.
• Until we hit Daniel 7, that is.
• The plurality of thrones in the passage tell us
  plainly that we have here what scholars of the
  Hebrew Bible call a divine council scene the
  high sovereign in his throne room, meeting with
  the heavenly host.
• The literature of Ugarit has many such scenes,
  and the biblical divine council and the council
  at Ugarit are very similar.
• In point of fact, the flow of Daniel 7 actually
  follows the flow of a divine council scene in the
  Baal Cycle.

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Son of Man Coming With the Clouds of Heaven

• Jesus the Son of Man before earthly court
  seats (the Sanhedrin, Pilate, Herod). Matt. 26-27
• Jesus identified Himself as the Son of Man. Matt.
  2664
• He accepted the claim as the Son of God. Matt.
  2663-64
• Finally, He accepts claim to be the cloud
  rider, fulfilling Daniels prophecy. Matt. 2664
• The council of the Jews heard enough Jesus was
  guilty of blasphemyclaiming to be Jehovah (The
  title of God) Himself! Jn. 197

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Conclusion

• Christians should be in awe and rejoice over
  Jesus claim to Deity. Jn. 2028
• Such a claim is the cornerstone to our faith with
  the realization that the next time we see Him,