Therefore I was left alone when I saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me for my vigor was turned to frailty in me, and I retained no strength. (8-9) Daniel’s reaction to the sight of the man. They fled to hide themselves: Of course they couldn’t see the vision if they were hiding from it. These cases remind us that we can be close to the presence and power of God, yet miss the message through lack of spiritual perception.ī.
This is like the latter instance of Saul on the road to Damascus, when his companions could not hear the same voice from heaven that he heard. Daniel saw what he saw regarding the glorious man, but his companions could not see it. I, Daniel, alone saw the vision: This shows that there was something supernatural about this vision. (7) Daniel’s companions are terrified, yet unseeing.Īnd I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision but a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.Ī. We also know that Ezekiel saw angelic figures clothed in linen (Ezekiel 9:2). A certain man clothed in linen: Some others think that the certain man is an unnamed angel of high rank, noting that Jesus would not need the assistance of Michael, mentioned in Daniel 10:13. Some say this is Jesus, noting that the description is remarkably like what John saw in Revelation 1:12-16.ī. A certain man clothed in linen: Commentators divide over the identity of this certain man. Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris, I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz! His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude.Ī. (4-6) Daniel sees a glorious man on the banks of the Tigris River. Daniel definitely practiced a form of self-denial, but it was not fasting. The Biblical idea of fasting is to abstain from food altogether, drinking only water. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth: It would be wrong to call what Daniel did fasting. “I think too that Daniel’s sorrow was occasioned partly by the repetition of those words to him: ‘The vision is true, but the time appointed is long.’ ” (Spurgeon)ĭ. Daniel could serve the exiles better from his high position in government than he could with them in Jerusalem. Daniel did not go back with Ezra’s group of exiles because he was about 84 years old at this time. Others believe it was because Ezra faced severe opposition in rebuilding the temple.
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Mourning three full weeks: Some think that Daniel was in mourning because so few Jews had returned with Ezra from exile. Walvoord on the appointed time was long: “The implication is that the period in view is a long and strenuous one involving great conflict and trouble for the people of God.”Ĭ. The message was true, but the appointed time was long: Daniel 10 sets the stage for the spectacular prophecy ( message) of Daniel 11, which described a time of great persecution and testing for the people of Israel. In the third year of Cyrus: By this time, the first wave of exiles had returned under the leadership of Ezra (Ezra 1-2).ī. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.Ī. In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.
The message was true, but the appointed time was long and he understood the message, and had understanding of the vision.
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar. (1-3) Introduction: Daniel’s state of heart. Daniel 10 – Circumstances of the Final Vision A.
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