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With the Clouds of Heaven: The Book of Daniel in Biblical Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

“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.” (Daniel 7:13–14). James Hamilton perceives a hole in evangelical biblical theology that should be filled with a robust treatment of the book of Daniel. He takes this chance to delve into the book’s rich...

the people of the prince who was to come, the Romans, in an instalment in the pattern of fourth kingdom activity, destroyed city and sanctuary (Dan. 9:26). I put it this way because the fourth kingdom is never identified as Rome in Daniel, whereas the first kingdom is clearly Babylon/Nebuchadnezzar (‘you are the head of gold’, Dan. 2:38), and Medo-Persia and Greece are likewise named (8:20–21; 11:1–2). This seems to leave the fourth kingdom open as a type, and the pattern receives instalments from
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