THE AFTERWORD | I'm Terrible With Names - Week 2
Imagine if Jesus went around calling Himself “Luke Skywalker.” Or “Frodo Baggins.” If you’d never seen Star Wars, or read “Lord of the Rings” then those references would go right over your head. But if you had, those allusions would be chock-filled with meaning and story and impact. In the Gospels, Jesus refers to Himself more than 80 times as the “son of man.” This phrase is so uncommon in the Greek, that many ancient listeners likely wouldn’t have understood what it meant. But Jewish listeners, if they paid attention, might have caught that Jesus was referring to a figure in the Book of Daniel that appears to Daniel in a vision. And by using this phrase, we learn that Jesus finds in Daniel a paradigm of suffering, enthronement, and authority that he utilises to describe His own journey and interpret Himself. Jay and David sit down to talk through this mysterious “Son of Man” figure in Daniel - and what it means for Jesus and us.