◄ Daniel 7:27 ►
Then the sovereignty, dominion, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will serve and obey Him.'
Study Bible
Then the sovereignty
The word "sovereignty" refers to supreme power or authority. In the context of Daniel, it signifies the ultimate authority that God will bestow upon His people. The Hebrew root for sovereignty is "malku," which denotes kingship or royal power. This reflects the biblical theme that God is the ultimate ruler, and His authority surpasses all earthly powers. Historically, this is a promise of hope to the Israelites, who were often under foreign dominion, assuring them of a future where God's people will reign with Him.

dominion
"Dominion" implies control or the exercise of authority over a realm. The Hebrew word "sholtan" is used here, emphasizing the extent and reach of the power that will be granted. This term is significant in the biblical narrative, as it contrasts the temporary and often oppressive dominion of earthly kingdoms with the just and eternal dominion of God's kingdom. It reassures believers that God's ultimate plan involves His people sharing in His righteous rule.

and greatness of the kingdoms
The "greatness of the kingdoms" suggests the splendor and majesty that characterize these realms. The Hebrew word "rab" conveys abundance and magnitude. This phrase indicates that the future kingdom of God will surpass all previous kingdoms in glory and power. Historically, this would have been a profound encouragement to the Jewish people, who had witnessed the rise and fall of many empires, reminding them that God's kingdom will be unparalleled.

under all of heaven
This phrase emphasizes the universality of God's kingdom. The Hebrew expression "tachath kol shamayim" indicates that this dominion will encompass the entire earth. It reflects the biblical vision of God's reign extending over all creation, not limited by geographical or political boundaries. This universal scope is a recurring theme in prophetic literature, highlighting the inclusivity and comprehensive nature of God's ultimate plan.

will be given to the people
The phrase "will be given" underscores the gracious and sovereign act of God in bestowing this authority. The Hebrew verb "yehib" suggests a deliberate and generous act of giving. This indicates that the dominion is not something earned by human effort but is a divine gift. It reflects the biblical principle of grace, where God empowers His people to share in His rule.

the saints of the Most High
"Saints" refers to those set apart for God's purposes. The Hebrew term "qaddish" denotes holiness and consecration. The "Most High" is a title for God, emphasizing His supreme authority and transcendence. This phrase identifies the recipients of the kingdom as those who are faithful to God, highlighting the intimate relationship between God and His people. It reassures believers of their identity and destiny in God's plan.

His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom
The "everlasting kingdom" signifies a realm that will endure forever. The Hebrew word "alam" conveys perpetuity and timelessness. This contrasts with the temporary nature of earthly kingdoms, affirming the eternal nature of God's reign. It provides hope and assurance to believers that God's kingdom will never be overthrown or diminished.

and all rulers will serve and obey Him
This phrase indicates the submission of all earthly authorities to God's rule. The Hebrew words "pelach" (serve) and "shema" (obey) suggest worship and adherence to God's commands. It envisions a future where all leaders recognize and honor God's sovereignty. This reflects the biblical hope for a world where justice and righteousness prevail under God's perfect governance.

Persons / Places / Events
1. The Saints of the Most High
Refers to the faithful believers who are set apart for God. In the context of Daniel, these are the people who remain true to God amidst persecution and trials.

2. The Most High
A title for God, emphasizing His supreme authority and power over all creation. In Hebrew, this is "El Elyon," highlighting God's sovereignty.

3. The Kingdoms under Heaven
Represents all earthly kingdoms and authorities that exist under God's ultimate rule.

4. Everlasting Kingdom
The eternal reign of God, which will be established and will never end. This is a central theme in biblical prophecy, pointing to the ultimate fulfillment in Christ's reign.

5. Rulers
Earthly leaders and authorities who will ultimately recognize and submit to God's supreme authority.
Teaching Points
God's Sovereignty
Recognize that all earthly power is temporary and subject to God's ultimate authority. This should bring comfort and assurance to believers facing trials.

The Role of the Saints
Understand that believers are called to be faithful and set apart, participating in God's kingdom work now and in the future.

Eternal Perspective
Focus on the eternal kingdom rather than temporary earthly gains. This perspective helps in prioritizing spiritual growth and service.

Submission to God's Authority
Encourage believers to live in obedience to God, knowing that all rulers and authorities will ultimately submit to Him.

Hope in God's Promises
Hold onto the promise of God's everlasting kingdom, which provides hope and motivation to persevere in faith.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does understanding God's sovereignty in Daniel 7:27 impact your view of current world events and authorities?

2. In what ways can you live as a "saint of the Most High" in your daily life, reflecting God's kingdom values?

3. How does the promise of an everlasting kingdom influence your priorities and decisions?

4. What are some practical ways you can submit to God's authority in areas of your life where you struggle with control?

5. How can the hope of God's eternal kingdom encourage you in times of personal trials or global uncertainty?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Revelation 11:15
This verse speaks of the kingdoms of the world becoming the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ, echoing the theme of God's ultimate sovereignty and the establishment of His eternal kingdom.

Matthew 5:5
Jesus' teaching on the meek inheriting the earth connects to the idea of the saints receiving the kingdom, emphasizing humility and faithfulness.

1 Corinthians 15:24-28
Paul discusses the end when Christ hands over the kingdom to God the Father after destroying all dominion, authority, and power, aligning with the prophecy in Daniel.
Sermons
The Church of the FutureK. B. Tupper, D.D.Daniel 7:27
The Reign of the SaintsW. Clark, D.D.Daniel 7:27
Daniel's First VisionE. B. Pusey, D.D.Daniel 7:4-28
The First Two Visions of the Book of DanielT. R. Birks, M.A.Daniel 7:4-28
The Four BeastsOutlines by London MinisterDaniel 7:4-28
The Symbolical BeastsW. White.Daniel 7:4-28
The Vision of the Four BeastsWilliam M. Taylor, D.D.Daniel 7:4-28
Vision, of Four Wild BeastsT.Kirk.Daniel 7:4-28
Godly Obedience the Basis of Permanent DominionJ.D. Davies Daniel 7:15-28
The Great AntagonistH.T. Robjohns Daniel 7:15-28
People
Belshazzar, Daniel
Places
Babylon
Topics
Age-during, Authority, Dominion, Dominions, Eternal, Everlasting, Greatness, Handed, Heaven, Heavens, Highest, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Obey, Places, Pleasure, Power, Powers, Rulers, Saints, Servants, Serve, Sky, Sovereignty, Worship
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Daniel 7:27

     1140   God, the eternal
     2233   Son of Man
     2345   Christ, kingdom of
     2376   kingdom of God, coming
     4938   fate, final destiny
     5295   destruction
     7155   saints
     8271   holiness, purpose
     9136   immortality, OT

Daniel 7:23-27

     1469   visions

Daniel 7:24-27

     9115   antichrist, the

Daniel 7:26-27

     5454   power, God's saving

Library
Christ's Own Testimony Concerning Himself.
THERE is but one rational explanation, of this sublime mystery; and this is found in Christ's own testimony concerning his superhuman and divine origin and character.[49]49 This testimony challenges at once our highest regard and belief from the absolute veracity which no one ever denied him, or could deny, without destroying at once the very foundation of his universally conceded moral purity and greatness. Christ strongly asserts his humanity, and calls himself; about eighty times in the Gospels, …
Philip Schaff—The Person of Christ

The Christ of the Gospels. By Rev. Professor Schaff.
THE life and character of Jesus Christ is truly the Holy of Holies in the history of the world. Eighteen hundred years have passed away since he, in the fullness of time, appeared on this earth to redeem a fallen race from sin and death, and to open a never-ceasing fountain of righteousness and life. The ages before him anxiously awaited his coming as "the Desire of all nations;" the ages after him proclaim his glory, and ever extend his dominion. The noblest and best of men under every clime hold …
Philip Schaff—The Romance of M. Renan, and the Christ of the Gospels

The Apocalypse.
1. The word Apocalypse (Greek Apokalupsis) signifies Revelation, the title given to the book in our English version as well from its opening word as from its contents. Of all the writings of the New Testament that are classed by Eusebius among the disputed books (Antilegomena, chap. 5. 6), the apostolic authorship of this is sustained by the greatest amount of external evidence; so much so that Eusebius acknowledges it as doubtful whether it should be classed among the acknowledged or …
E. P. Barrows—Companion to the Bible

The Captivity of Judah.
Eze., Dan., Lam. The Ten Tribes Lost. After the fall of Samaria we hear but little of the ten tribes. They were carried off into the regions of Ninevah by the Assyrians. All effort to locate them has failed and no doubt will fail. Sargon, in an inscription found at Ninevah, said that he carried away into captivity 27,290. These were perhaps leaders of Israel whom he thought might lead a revolt. He sent others back to take their place and the Israelites seemed to have mingled with the races about …
Josiah Blake Tidwell—The Bible Period by Period

Communion Again Broken --Restoration
Cant. v. 2-vi.10. The fourth section commences with an address of the bride to the daughters of Jerusalem, in which she narrates her recent sad experience, and entreats their help in her trouble. The presence and comfort of her Bridegroom are again lost to her; not this time by relapse into worldliness, but by slothful self-indulgence. We are not told of the steps that led to her failure; of how self again found place in her heart. Perhaps spiritual pride in the achievements which grace enabled her …
J. Hudson Taylor—Union and Communion

The Ecclesiastical Trial
Over the Kedron, up the slope to the city, through the gates, along the silent streets, the procession passed, with Jesus in the midst; midnight stragglers, perhaps, hurrying forward from point to point to ask what was ado, and peering towards the Prisoner's face, before they diverged again towards their own homes.[1] He was conducted to the residence of the high priest, where His trial ensued. Jesus had to undergo two trials--the one ecclesiastical, the other civil; the one before Caiaphas the …
James Stalker—The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ

Jesus at Capernaum.
Beset by an idea, gradually becoming more and more imperious and exclusive, Jesus proceeds henceforth with a kind of fatal impassibility in the path marked out by his astonishing genius and the extraordinary circumstances in which he lived. Hitherto he had only communicated his thoughts to a few persons secretly attracted to him; henceforward his teaching was sought after by the public. He was about thirty years of age.[1] The little group of hearers who had accompanied him to John the Baptist had, …
Ernest Renan—The Life of Jesus

The Danger of Deviating from Divine Institutions.
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." St. Paul was the apostle of the Gentiles. The care of the churches gathered among them devolved particularly on him. At the writing of this epistle he had no personal acquaintance with the church to which it is addressed.* Epaphras, a bishop of the Colossians, then his fellow prisoner at Rome, had made him acquainted with their state, and the danger …
Andrew Lee et al—Sermons on Various Important Subjects

Jesus Stills the Storm.
(Sea of Galilee; Same Day as Last Section) ^A Matt. VIII. 18-27; ^B Mark IV. 35-41; ^C Luke VIII. 22-25. ^b 35 And that day, { ^c one of those days,} ^b when the even was come [about sunset], ^a when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. { ^b he saith unto them, Let us go over unto the other side.} [Wearied with a day of strenuous toil, Jesus sought rest from the multitude by passing to the thinly settled on the east side of Galilee.] ^a 19 And there …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

A vision of the King.
ONE of the most blessed occupations for the believer is the prayerful searching of God's holy Word to discover there new glories and fresh beauties of Him, who is altogether lovely. Shall we ever find out all which the written Word reveals of Himself and His worthiness? This wonderful theme can never be exhausted. The heart which is devoted to Him and longs through the presence and indwelling of the Holy Spirit to be closer to the Lord, to hear and know more of Himself, will always find something …
Arno Gaebelein—The Lord of Glory

The Situation after the Council of Nicæa.
The council (a) had testified, by its horrified and spontaneous rejection of it, that Arianism was a novelty subversive of the Christian faith as they had received it from their fathers. They had (b) banished it from the Church by an inexorable test, which even the leading supporters of Arius had been induced to subscribe. In the years immediately following, we find (c) a large majority of the Eastern bishops, especially of Syria and Asia Minor, the very regions whence the numerical strength of the …
Athanasius—Select Works and Letters or Athanasius

A Treatise of the Fear of God;
SHOWING WHAT IT IS, AND HOW DISTINGUISHED FROM THAT WHICH IS NOT SO. ALSO, WHENCE IT COMES; WHO HAS IT; WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS; AND WHAT THE PRIVILEGES OF THOSE THAT HAVE IT IN THEIR HEARTS. London: Printed for N. Ponder, at the Peacock in the Poultry, over against the Stocks market: 1679. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," and "a fountain of life"--the foundation on which all wisdom rests, as well as the source from whence it emanates. Upon a principle …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

The Birth and Early Life of John the Baptist.
(Hill Country of Judæa, b.c. 5.) ^C Luke I. 57-80. ^c 57 Now Elisabeth's time was fulfilled that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. 58 And her neighbors and her kinsfolk heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her [mercy in granting a child; great mercy in granting so illustrious a child] ; and they rejoiced with her. 59 And it came to pass on the eighth day [See Gen. xvii. 12; Lev. xii. 3; Phil. iii. 5. Male children were named at their circumcision, probably …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Second visit to Nazareth - the Mission of the Twelve.
It almost seems, as if the departure of Jesus from Capernaum marked a crisis in the history of that town. From henceforth it ceases to be the center of His activity, and is only occasionally, and in passing, visited. Indeed, the concentration and growing power of Pharisaic opposition, and the proximity of Herod's residence at Tiberias [3013] would have rendered a permanent stay there impossible at this stage in our Lord's history. Henceforth, His Life is, indeed, not purely missionary, but He has …
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

History of the Interpretation.
1. AMONG THE JEWS. This History, as to its essential features, might, a priori, be sketched with tolerable certainty. From the nature of the case, we could scarcely expect that the Jews should have adopted views altogether erroneous as to the subject of the prophecy in question; for the Messiah appears in it, not in His humiliation, but in His glory--rich in gifts and blessings, and Pelagian self-delusion will, a priori, return an affirmative answer to the question as to whether one is …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

His Future Work
The Lord Jesus Christ, who finished the work on earth the Father gave Him to do, who is now bodily present in the highest heaven, occupying the Father's throne and exercising His priesthood in behalf of His people, is also King. To Him belongeth a Kingdom and a kingly Glory. He has therefore a kingly work to do. While His past work was foretold by the Spirit of God and His priestly work foreshadowed in the Old Testament, His work as King and His glorious Kingdom to come are likewise the subjects …
A. C. Gaebelein—The Work Of Christ

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