The close parallel that is evident here leads to one conclusion. The time, place and

people of the two books are the same. "Thy people" is Israel, "the latter days" bring us to

the period of the Revelation, "the day of the Lord," the difference between the two

accounts is that Daniel was told to shut up the words and seal the book to the time of the

end, whereas John is told, "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the

prophecy, and keep those things that are written therein, for the time is at hand."

Having such a definite connection with Israel and the time of the end impressed upon

the opening vision of the Revelation, we wonder how it is that so many see the "church"

in this passage. However, it is not for us to question the views of others, but rather to get

to know more and more of the truth of God for ourselves. Turning to the vision that John

beheld, we find that in the midst of the seven golden lampstands was the Son of man.

THE SON OF MAN.--Titles, when used of Deity, are dispensational. God is spirit.

The invisible God has made Himself known under a variety of titles. In the Incarnate

Word He is revealed as the Saviour, the Shepherd, the Head, the Son of God, and many

other titles. Each has its distinctive connection. The Son of man is related to the earth;

not the earth in a wrong or unspiritual sense, but to God's purposes of blessing in the

earth. The first occurrence in Scripture is found in Psa. 8:, where He has "dominion

over the works of Thy (God's) hands." The title occurs 84 times in the N.T., and is never

used by Paul in his Church Epistles. The one other reference in Revelation is 14: 14,

where, crowned with a golden crown, He comes to reap, for the harvest of the earth is

ripe.

The seven references in Matt. 24: & 25: to the Son of man link the title closely

with the parousia, the great tribulation, the days of Noah, the throne of glory, and

judgment of the nations. Something of the glory of this Son of man is gathered from

John's description. The garment which reached to the foot was the robe worn by both

Kings and Priests. When Isaiah "saw His glory," he tells us "His train (or the hem of His

garment) filled the temple." The golden girdle is met with again in 15: 6, as worn by the

seven angels who came out of the Temple of God. When Daniel saw the Ancient of days

(7: 9), he says, "the hair of His head was like pure wool," which John says of the Son of

man. "White" is mentioned more times in the Revelation than in the rest of the N.T. To

the overcomer it is given to walk with the Lord in white, to receive a white stone, to be

clothed in white raiment. The Son of man sits upon a white cloud, rides a white horse,

and finally occupies a great white throne. Righteousness at length shall be brought in,

even as Daniel 9: declares it shall be. The all-searching eyes of the Son of man are seen

in the "flame of fire." Those eyes saw the evil in the Church of Thyatira (2: 18), and

when He at length rides forth upon the white horse to rule the nations, still it is written,

"His eyes were as a flame of fire" (19: 12). "His feet were like unto shining copper, as if

they burned in a furnace." When Ezekiel saw the Cherubim, he tells us that their feet

sparkled like the colour of burnished copper (1: 7). When we wish to indicate the failing

and earthly character of even the best, we use a figure and say, "After all, they have feet

of clay." Nebuchadnezzar's image that he saw in vision, while having a golden head, had

feet of clay. The heavenly Cherubim, and the Son of man, have feet that shine like