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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 10 – The Proclamation of the Advent
early years of his sounding, the mystery of
God shall be finished.
Commencement of the Seventh Trumpet. —
From the events to take place under the
sounding of the seventh trumpet, its
commencement may be located with
sufficient definiteness at the close of the
prophetic periods in 1844. Not many years
from that date, then, the mystery of God is to
be finished. The great event, whatever it is, is
right upon us. Some closing and decisive work,
with whatever of importance and solemnity it
bears in its train, is near at hand. There is an
importance connected with the finishing of
any of the works of God. Such an act marks a
solemn and important era. Our Saviour, when
expiring upon the cross, cried, “It is finished”
(John 19:30); and when the great work of
