(7) The Glory of the Triune God

(Note: This post is part of a series on Jesus as The Ancient of Days)


The Ancient of Days is the Father in verse thirteen and the Son in verse twenty-two. This is a portrait of the glory of the uniqueness and mystery of the trinity.
 
But maybe we still struggle with this. And maybe it is because we are finite beings trying to understand the infinite, triune God. We say we believe in the trinity but at times when we come across manifestations of the triune nature of God we get all twisted up. We struggle with saying “Yahweh is Jesus and Jesus is Yahweh.” We associate the name Yahweh with the Father. We make clear distinctions between God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And certainly, they are distinct persons of the triune God-head. But the connection between the three persons of the triune God-head are often seen so close they can almost seem indistinguishable. This is not unusual in scripture. Remember what Jesus said,

"If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father." (John 10:37-38 NAU)

“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.  Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.” (John 14:10-11 NET)

The connection between the three persons of the triune God are so close that Jesus states that He and the Father are in each other. “If you’ve seen me, you have seen the Father.” Jesus said to His disciples to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Name is singular speaking of the three persons of our triune God. Three persons, one name!

Scripture can use the same words to describe each of the three persons of the God-head because each is God. So, the Ancient of Days is God the Father and the Ancient of Days is God the Son. Or, we could also say God the Father is the Ancient of Days and God the Son is also the Ancient of Days.