Thoughts on "Son of Man"

Dan 7:13  "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.
Dan 7:14  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.

Jesus Christ used the term the Son of Man so much, that was almost used as a replacement for the personal pronoun "I" in His speaking.

Son of Man does not just refer to the fact that Jesus became a human being, but that, in the context of Daniel, He was the pre-existent heavenly being who is given a kingdom to rule the universe forever and ever.

Thus the meaning of the Son of Man can only be "GOD" GOD alone is the pre-existent being who rules as King forever and ever.

But why is God, this second person of the Trinity, given such a name as "Son of Man"?

It is because HE was whom us, the "sons of man", the children of Adam, were supposed to look like. Human beings were supposed to look like God. They were supposed to rule with God, not to be ruled by things. Human beings were created to be children of God, bearing after God's image.

But because none of us resemble God. That is, none of us are "kings", but we are slaves - since we are all born slaves of sin - and live contrary to what God the King looks like.

Therefore, the second person of the Trinity, God Himself, had to come as the perfect example of what a human being was supposed to look like. Hence, he is "one like a son of man", though he is by nature GOD in his pre-existence and perfect dominion.

We are supposed to look after God in his holiness and character. That is, we ought to be be Godly. We were born to be Kingly. But we look demonic, like servants, and thus defile the image of God and blaspheme God in everything we do and are in grovelling under creations, and not letting the creation serve us to glorify God in heaven.

Therefore God had to be made into the image of the servant, into LIKENESS of a slave (only in LIKENESS, because he was under no bondage of anyone), so that He could be condemned as the representative of sinners who repent and believe in Him.

This is the message of the Gospel. We should have been like God, but instead, God became "like" us in every way except without sin. He became the image of sin and was nailed to the cross to condemn sin in Him, so that all who put their trust in that work and continue to repent of sin, shall be saved.

Praised be to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, forever more!