Page 22 - 09 The Seventy Weeks

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
The considerations already presented are

sufficient to show conclusively the connection

between chapters 8 and 9; but this will still

further appear in subsequent verses.

One expression seems worthy of notice before

we leave verse 23. It is the declaration of the

angel to Daniel, “For thou art greatly beloved.”

The angel brought this declaration direct from

the courts of heaven. It expressed the state of

feeling that existed there in regard to Daniel.

Think of celestial beings, the highest in the

universe, — the Father, the Son, the holy

angels, — having such regard and esteem for

a mortal man here upon earth as to authorize

an angel to bear the message to him that he is

greatly beloved! This is one of the highest

pinnacles of glory to which mortals can attain.

Abraham reached another, when it could be