12 February 2024
Pageau continues with a couple of specific prophetic passages in Scripture, showing how the symbols explained so far can give meaning to perplexing revelations.
In the case of Daniel's vision of Nebuchadnezzar's statue dream, we see the confused image of the statue that was not all one material, but a hybrid of various substances. It tells us that the empires were all one kind of thing, but strung together in a way that each destroys the previous. Time rolls on through the empires.
The rock cut out without hands is a stumbling stone. It trashes the empires, and then grows into a mountain. Thus, the same stone is both time and space. Jesus and His kingdom unites the basic processes of Creation in His power.
There's also the vision of Ezekiel's cherubs. With the four beings having each four faces, we have the image of clear revelation, stability and establishing a solid space. The meanings of each face is variously explained, but the real point here is the symbolism of the squared image.
However, the wheels beside them represent something hidden from our grasp. The wheels within wheels is a Hebrew double; the meaning is amplified and intensified -- we really should not even try to understand it. It points out that revelation is limited, both revealing speech and concealing mystery. There are things God tells us, and things we cannot even receive were He to tell. Thus, it is both revealed and stable, and at the same time rolling and mysterious. This is more a prophecy about prophecy itself (Pageau calls it "meta-prophecy") and the way God operates than anything else.
Thus, we gain insight into how to read Hebrew prophecy.
Comments
Dan D.
Those four faces Ezekiel "saw" are often attributed to an equivalent in the four Gospels extending important facets of Jesus. I am enjoying Pageau's book in small doses; it is thick and easy to gloss over without proper contemplation.
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