As we know, it is Satan’s determined purpose to hide as much truth as possible from us, especially “present truth”. For he knows his time is short and should the people become aware of present truth, which is His latest instructions to His people, a sort of final road map as it were, he shall be defeated in his wiles of deception, and the people shall continue on the divine lighted path of our Almighty. A perfect example of this coy deception is the prophectic vision of Daniel, chapter 2.
Has the devil led the people into thinking that the “stone” in Daniel’s vision is Jesus, to sidetrack the people from the real God intended purpose of the vision? Can there be a clearly different understanding to this important prophetic vision? Many are learning today that there most definitely IS a clear and different interpretation. It has been revealed for many decades but only now, as “Elijah’s end time message” is going out, is it really being discovered and spread, the veil of deception is being removed, and truth is being exposed. Let’s take a look at this vision closely.
It has been a long held tradition, to most of Chrisendom, that the stone in Daniel’s vision symbolizes Jesus. This belief comes from the proposed fact that Jesus, as the stone, comes from the “mountain”, which in the vision, is meant to represent heaven. And therefore as the stone comes from the mountain, it implies that Jesus is coming from heaven to destroy the earths kingdoms, in the near future. But let’s really understand the “mountain” symbolization here , let’s look into God’s word to understand the correct interpretation of this vision.
While it is true that the word “mountian” in the bible has varied meanings. Sometimes it a literal meaning, and sometimes symbolic. To get the most direct “in context” meaning of the word in Daniel’s vision, we should logically look into Daniel’s own inspired writing’s within that chapter. This can be a big key. How does he use the word “mountain” in his inspired writings? Does he use it symbolically? If he uses it in the symbolic meaning, then that would be a powerful clue as to the meaning used in the vision. Let’s look at the important words in the vision.
The first verse we’ll look at is Chapter 2, verse 35. It says “..And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.” Here the traditonal interpretation is that Jesus comes and destroys the world’s kingdoms( image) and replaces it with His kingdom (fills the whole earth). As we stated, it is based on the fact that the stone is meant to be Jesus.
Next we have verse 44. “And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, it shall break in pieces these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.” Now we can see two very important points that need to be clarified in this verse.
You’ll notice it says “IN the days of these kings”, but the traditonal view is that it really means “AFTER the days of these kings”. But that is not what it says, in = does not mean = after. So we can clearly see that DURING the days of these kings , God will set up His kingdom, not after the kings days. In other words, they believe that God’s kingdom is set up- when they(the kings) are gone from this earth (destroyed) and not while they are still here living to behold God’s kingdom being set-up. This subtle mis-interpretation throws the whole intended meaning of the vision off, if we don’t read it clearly.
Also in that same above verse, we notice that it is the “kingdom” that breaks in pieces all the other kingdoms. Kingdoms represent people, it cannot mean Jesus personally breaking up the kingdoms. Otherwise it would have said the “King” breaks up kingdoms or some such words. We should not imagine that which is not clearly there. This is where deception can come, when we read into verses things which aren’t there, instead of reading it as it simply says.
In verse 45 it says “Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold….” Here again the traditional view is that Jesus came out of heaven (mountain) and destroyed the earthly kingdoms. This is all based on the stone being Jesus and the mountain being heaven. But Daniel meant that those symbols are represented differently as we will clearly see. Let’s look into the meaning of mountain.
In Daniel’s book, further in chapter 9, we discover how Daniel uses the word “mountain” and it is clearly symbolic and it’s describtion VERY clear. Verse 16 reads, ” O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, YOUR HOLY MOUNTAIN, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are a reproach to all those around us.” Here we see Daniel equating Jerusalem and it’s people as –a mountain. In other words, God’s people are His “Holy Mountain”.
Verse 20 really nails it as far as clarification. It says “Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God FOR THE HOLY MOUNTAIN of my God…” Daniel is calling God’s people — The Holy mountain of God.
So from the above we can see in the book of Daniel , the word mountain is used as a representation of God’s people , and obviously that would mean also His church.
Some people have used various other scripture to show that the mountain describes heaven. But we must ask — Is it logical to use Daniel’s own symbolic meaning of “mountain” when interpreting this vision, or should we pull out a different meaning of the mountain from another book in the bible? I think this is a no-brainer.
In the beginning of this post I mentioned how Satan hates “present truth”. To give you an idea about this prophetic vision and how it is considered present truth, it has only recently been correctly understood (within the last few decades). Not even Ellen White knew much about this vision! Arther White, the secretary of the EGW estate, back in 1971, stated that she had made no mention of the “stone” as to what it represented, in all her vast writings!
The scroll of truth has since opened further. And today, we can see that the stone really is a small portion of God’s people “Cut out with out hands”. This term means God removed this portion from among the people of God (church).
These people are none other than the 144,000! They are divinely”cut out”. This process is a divine act that comes from God, it’s the sealing time of God’s servants, which is described in Revelation 7:1-4. It also is described (quite solemnly) in Ezekiel 9:1-11).
This vision means that WE are now being shown what will very soon happen, hence the devils wants falsehood in describing this vision. The 144,000 (stone) will go forth, in God’s power and strength and “break” the other kingdoms. This means that the 144,ooo go forth and show God’s power and might (miracles and such), and as the other “kingdoms” (which means established religions-NOT governments) see this, they confess that God is indeed with these people. A great mulititude come forth from around the world to come into “God’s kingdom” which really is God’s true church.
So my brothers and sisters, let us take heed on today’s present truth, for by knowing God’s truth FOR TODAY, we are well equipped to navigate Satan’s arrows and stand on firm ground. There will always be people who cling to “tradition”. Spiritual pride is one sickness that can seriously harm our walk with the Lord.
In Christ, Your servant Rob Ps. For a great video presentation of the Daniel2 Vision , click here ( the source of much of this post)
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