VI: The Prophets' Visions

One Foot on Sea and Land (the Oath)

a ruling of total jurisdiction and no delay

Root
Dan 12:7 · shaba' (H7650)
Old Testament chain
  1. Gen 14:22
  2. Exod 20:11
  3. Deut 11:24
  4. Deut 32:40
  5. Dan 12:7
  6. Hab 2:3
  7. Rev 10:5-6
New Testament
Rev 8:1; Rev 10:2, 5-6; Rev 10:6; Rev 10:7; Rev 11:15; Rom 16:25-26; Eph 3:3-6; Col 1:26-27; 1 Thess 4:16

Abram first lifts his hand "unto Yahuah, the most high El" (Gen 14:22), and Yahuah says, "I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever" (Deut 32:40). Daniel's man in linen raises both hands and swears "by him that liveth for ever" (Dan 12:7). The stance on sea and land is a claim of total jurisdiction; the Court will not grant another continuance. "No more delay" is not a prediction but a ruling. The oath names the Creator in the words of the Sabbath commandment, "heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that in them is" (Exod 20:11), answering the claim that the fourth commandment was abolished.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 141, 143, 145–146