NT Text: Matthew 19:28
OT Source(s):
Source: Beale & Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker, 2007)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Anchor Text: Dan 7:13-14 — The Son of Man Receiving Dominion
Significance: Jesus promises, "in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matt 19:28). Two features are Danielic: the enthroned "Son of Man" (Dan 7:13-14) and the plural thrones of judgment — "thrones were set in place" (Dan 7:9) — at which judgment is rendered and "the saints of the Most High" receive the kingdom (Dan 7:18, 22, 27). Matthew fuses the individual enthronement of the Son of Man with the corporate enthronement of His people, exactly the corporate-individual dynamic of Daniel 7, where the dominion given to the one figure is shared with the saints. The connection is promise-fulfillment: Daniel's vision of a kingdom granted to a representative figure and his people is fulfilled as Jesus, the Son of Man, takes His glorious throne and seats His followers as co-regents and co-judges. The telos is the Son of Man enthroned in glory — and the astonishing grace that He does not reign alone but draws His followers into His own dominion, so that the hope of sharing His throne (cf. Rev 3:21) is finally the hope of being with Him and like Him.