Covenant Reformed News – November 2009 • Volume XII, Issue 19
This article provides a detailed exegetical analysis of Daniel 7, examining the vision's structure, symbolism, and eschatological significance across both testaments. The author traces how Daniel's imagery of the four beasts, the little horn, and the Son of Man is employed throughout the New Testament, particularly in the Gospels, Paul's epistles, and Revelation, offering insight into Reformed biblical interpretation of apocalyptic prophecy.
Daniel’s Night Vision (1) The night vision of Daniel 7 gives a grand sweep of world history from the kingdom of Babylon to the final judgment, a period of 2,500 years and counting. This remarkable vision includes four terrible beasts (or world kingdoms), the ten horns that arise from the fourth beast, the little horn (or Antichrist) which arises from among the ten horns, the final judgment of the Ancient of Days, the eternal dominion of the Son of Man and the everlasting kingdom of the saints....