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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 10 – The Proclamation of the Advent
mercy for fallen man is completed, it will be
announced by a voice from the throne of God,
proclaiming, in tones which roll like thunder
through all the earth, the solemn sentence, “It
is done!” Revelation 16:17. It is therefore no
uncalled-for solicitude which prompts us to
inquire what bearing such events have upon
our eternal hopes and interests; and, when we
read of the finishing of the mystery of God, to
ask what that mystery is, and in what its
finishing consists.
The Mystery of God. — A few direct
testimonies from that Book which has been
given as a lamp to our feet, will show what this
mystery is. Ephesians 1:9, 10: “Having made
known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath
purposed in himself: that in the dispensation
