Daniel 7:9
Daniel 7:99As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze.
The Ancient of Days is identified as Jehovah, which Christians agree with. The Watchtower reads the scene as Jehovah installing his appointed king: the son of man of verse 13 approaches the throne and receives delegated authority as a created being promoted to rulership.
Take the description carefully — white clothing, hair like clean wool, a throne of flame. Daniel is painting the Ancient of Days, and the portrait is unmistakable. Now open . John sees someone like a son of man, and describes his head and hair as white like wool, white as snow, with eyes like a flame of fire. John has taken Daniel's picture of the Ancient of Days and painted it onto the son of man. In Daniel these are two figures; in John's vision the description of the first is given to the second. That is a deliberate act by a writer soaked in Daniel — he quotes a few verses earlier at . The merging is the interpretation. John is telling you that the one who came with the clouds shares the appearance, and the identity, of the one he came to. Compare , , .