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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                 Chapter 10 – The Proclamation of the Advent
                   parenthetically  between  the  sixth  and


               seventh trumpets. That which is particularly


               connected  with  the  sounding  of  the  sixth


               trumpet is recorded in chapter 9. The prophet


               has  other  events  to  introduce  before  the


               opening  of  another  trumpet,  and  takes



               occasion  to  do  it  in  the  scripture  which


               intervenes  to  the  15th  verse  of  chapter  11.


               Among  these  is  the  prophecy  of  chapter  10.


               Let  us  first  look  at  the  chronology  of  the


               message of this angel.



               The Little Book. — “He had in his hand a little


               book open.” There is a necessary inference to


               be  drawn  from  this  language,  which  is,  that


               this book was at some time closed up. We read


               in Daniel of a book which was closed up and


               sealed to a certain time: “But thou, O Daniel,


               shut up the words, and seal the  book, even to
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