Having fully experienced the encounter, Daniel himself fainted, with his face buried in the ground.Īdditionally, the near deathlike experience of Daniel in response to encountering the divine being makes it hard to conclude that the “man dressed in linen” is anyone else other than God in the person of the Christ. Nonetheless, they sensed a great power, as they fled in fear. The men with Daniel, likewise, did not see the vision. They, however, both heard a sound and stood speechless. In Daniel 10:7-9, we are reminded of the episode in Acts 9 where Paul’s companions did not fully share his experience of an encounter with the resurrected Jesus. Given the obvious and overwhelming likeness of Daniel’s vision with other visions of God/Christ in Scripture, it is difficult to discount the probability that much more than an angel is intended by the theophany-like description of the mysterious “man dressed in linen.” In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword and His face was like the sun shining in its strength.” His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow and His eyes were like a flame of fire. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, saying ‘Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.’ Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. The often-selected option of Gabriel seems unlikely, as Daniel previously encountered him (9:21) and had done so without any great fear.įrom the New Testament, we find a portrait of the Christ painted with similar language in Revelation 1:11-16: Given this description of a glittering, gold being with a fierce face, fire-like eyes and thunderous speech, one question rivets the reader: Who is this “man”? While many scholars simply identify him as an angel (usually Gabriel) sent to deliver the message to Daniel, it seems more likely that the being before Daniel was none other than God, most likely in the person of the Messiah.
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