“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven
there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
Daniel 7: 13-14
There are so many descriptives of Jesus that we should all hold in our understanding. The logical place to continue our search of Jesus’ as “the son of man” would be in his identity as the lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, as unveiled in the book of Revelation. As the heavenly Type required for Atonement at Passover, in the shadow of the law, Jesus became sin’s once and for all offering. Following his death, we now come to the glory of his resurrection as the Son of Man with the achieved and universally acknowledged right and power to rule..
Allow me to quote the following from J. Armitage Robinson commentary on the Book of Ephesians regarding the glory of Jesus’ resurrection
“ Henceforth, he (referring to the Apostle Paul) says, ‘now, we know man after the flesh; yay, if we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now, henceforth know we him (so) no more'. The death, the resurrection, the ascension, these are to him the important moments of the life of Christ; they are the ladder that leads upwards from Christ after the flesh to Christ in the heavenly sphere, the exalted, the glorified, the reigning, Christ yet to be manifested as the consummation of the purpose of God.”
You will remember we began with Jesus asking Peter ‘who do you say I am?’ And Peters answer, ‘you are the Christ, the son of the Living God.’ It is in understanding Jesus as a man, Jesus as The Man, the perfect man that
God intended to rule and reign, who now is, that brings us into our greatest victories.
Jesus’ own testimonies tell us how he continues as the Son of Man in heaven ~
“But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”
Luke 22:69.
Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Matthew 26:64
Now we are gleaning from Him the understanding of how to live, as Him, on the earth and how to overcome, through Him, as the exalted one seated NOW in heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named not only in this age (here and now) but also in the one to come (His return).
After Jesus’ resurrection, we find he was physically unrecognizable as the Jesus the disciples had known. While he continues in a bodily form, this form is so transformed by glory that he was only recognized through the spiritual dynamic of ‘hearts burning within’ and ‘ eyes opened’ that bore witness to the truth this was indeed their risen Saviour.
We find the man Daniel described above as “given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.”
Jesus is seated in the heavenlies, in the Kingdom of God where his rule and authority reign supreme in divine order and willing submission. We pray for that Kingdom and that reign, to be manifested that way, here on earth and it begins in knowing Jesus.