13 “I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him.
14 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.
The dominion of Jesus was foretold over 500 years before his birth by the prophet Daniel.
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
We were given dominion over the fish, birds, cattle and every creeping thing on earth, and were made in the image of God at the time of creation.
The word Dominion means that which is mastered or ruled. In our case we apply it to the idea that we are sinners who are ruled by a benevolent God, and also to the virtue of Temperance and learning to master oneself.
It comes from dominus’ Latin for ‘Master’ and is a reminder of the constant presence of God in our lives.
Dominion of Canada: Canada is neither Kingdom nor Republic, we are a Dominion fashioned after God’s own design.