Coming with clouds

With reference to Daniel 7:13,22,27—The saints in the resurrection-state being thus indisputably likened to sparkling dew drops, the reader will, we apprehend, have no difficulty in regarding clouds as their representatives when with the Lord in the apocalyptic firmament, or expanse, styled in Dan. 7:27, "the whole heaven"; under which "the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom they are to possess for the Aions of the Aions," are alone to be obtained.

The clouds of this Millennial Expanse are the sparkling dew drops of YAHWEH exalted by his energy to place and power; and gathered together about him as glorious and towering masses, pregnant with "lightnings, and thunderings, and voices, and great hail" (Apoc. 4:5; 11:19; 16:18-21). The power of Deity in every particle of these clouds is the omnipotence of the apocalypse. Eternal Power invested with clouds of virtuous and heroic immortals, constituted in the aggregate, Ezekiel's "Whirlwind out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and round about it brightness, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber even out of the midst of the fire, whence proceeded the likeness of four living creatures." ...

The apocalyptic "coming with the clouds" is the same as that described in Dan. 7:13: "I was seeing," says the prophet, "in the vision of the night, and behold, there was coming, with clouds of heavens like a Son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before Him." These Clouds of Heavens were the "thousand thousands serving the Ancient of Days; and the myriad myriads that stood before him" -- the flames of his fiery throne, his wheels of burning fire, and the stream of flowing fire that issues from before him. Collectively a Son of man in whom the Ancient of Days, or Eternal Spirit, comes to execute the judgment written; and to set up and possess the kingdom (ver. 22).