“I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him. Then 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 the one Which shall not be destroyed.” Daniel 7:13-14

Daniel was given a vision of things to come. The vision was of four consecutive world empires that would all come and go. The end of the fourth empire would exist when Jesus came the first time. From Daniels’ perspective that was distant future. From our perspective it is distant past.

That God’s fulfilled prophecies of the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans all happened was not merely history written in advance. It was to establish God’s 100% accuracy regarding the world empires to verify that what He had to say about the coming of Christ was indeed trustworthy. And it was.

Even though the world is still running amuck, Jesus rules now.

When Jesus comes again, as He said He would, the fullness of His kingdom will be seen, on into and throughout eternity.

In this in between time (when Jesus rules, but sin yet prevails) we are to trust Him, and worship Him as the King of kings and the Lord of lords, (a) because He is! And (b) when He comes again, He will deal decisively and finally with all that oppose Him.