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Allusion
Later text
In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
Earlier text
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it." So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."
Genesis 1:26-28 grants the first man, made in God's image, dominion over "the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth" — a universal, royal rule that Adam forfeits at the Fall. Daniel 7:13-14 re-vests that forfeited dominion in "One like the Son of Man" (כְּבַר אֱנָשׁ, kəbar ʾĕnāš), to whom "was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him." It echoes the creation-mandate motif: a representative human figure receives rule over all the peoples of the earth, now escalated to an everlasting dominion "that will not pass away." Beale argues that Daniel 7 is the apocalyptic restoration of Genesis 1:26-28's mandate — the dominion lost in Adam is regained in the Son of Man. The connection is longitudinal and redemptive-historical rather than strictly typological: the same theme of human dominion-under-God advances across the canon, from the garden to the heavenly court. Its telos is not a generic call to "exercise dominion" but the enthroned Son of Man Himself — the desirable King who alone is fit to bear the glory Adam could not keep, and who, having received the kingdom, shares it with "the saints of the Most High" (Dan 7:18, 27). To behold Him reigning is to see what humanity was made for and to long to be His.
▸ The Son of Man Receiving Dominion