Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Harry Whittaker on Jesus being the Ancient of Days as a "commonly held theory" among Christadelphians

It is common for some Christadelphians to claim, with some qualifications, that Jesus is the Ancient of Days of Daniel 7. While disputing this identification, Harry Whittaker noted that it is “a commonly held theory”:

 

The Ancient of Days and the Son of Man (Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14)

 

Before embarking on a detailed study of the Four Beasts of chapter 7, it is convenient to examine with some care the verses about the heavenly Being described here.

 

There is a commonly held theory that:

 

the Ancient of Days = the glorified Christ
the Son of Man = the community of the saints.

 

This is quite wrong, as will be seen by and by. Apart from all the mass of Bible evidence, the two titles, when so applied, are hopeless misnomers. Who would ‘the Ancient of Days’ be but the Almighty Himself? and ‘Son of Man’ is, of course, the Lord Jesus. (Harry Whittaker, Visions in Daniel [Warwick: Biblia Books, 2021], 16)