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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 10 – The Proclamation of the Advent
the commencement of the time of the end.

All that now remains on this point is to

ascertain when the time of the end

commenced; and the book of Daniel itself

furnishes data from which this can be done. In

Daniel 11, from verse 30, the papal power is

brought to view. In verse 35 we read, “And

some of them of understanding shall fall, to try

them, and to purge, and make them white,

even to the time of the end.” Here is brought

to view the period of the supremacy of the

little horn, during which time the saints, times,

and laws were to be given into his hand, and

from him suffer fearful persecutions. This is

declared to reach to the time of the end. It

ended A. D. 1798, where the 1260 years of

papal rule expired. There the time of the end

commenced, and the book was opened. And

since that time, many have run to and fro, and