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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
his sinless life. The vision and the prophecy

were to be sealed up, or made sure. By the

events given to transpire in the seventy

weeks, the prophecy is tested. By this the

application of the whole vision is determined.

If the events of this period are accurately

fulfilled, the prophecy is of God, and will all be

accomplished; and if these seventy weeks are

fulfilled as weeks of years, then the 2300 days,

of which these are a part, are so many years.

Thus the events of the seventy weeks furnish

a key to the whole vision. And the “most holy”

was to be anointed; the most holy of the

heavenly sanctuary. In the examination of the

sanctuary, on chapter 8:14, we saw that a time

came when the earthly sanctuary gave place

to the heavenly, and the priestly ministration

was transferred to that. Before the

ministration in the sanctuary commenced, the