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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 servants. Commencing the seventy years

B. C. 606, Daniel understood that they were

now drawing to their termination; and God

had even commenced the fulfillment by

overthrowing the kingdom of Babylon.

VERSE 3. And I set my face unto the Lord God,

to seek by prayer and supplications, with

fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Because God has promised, we are not

released from the responsibility of beseeching

him for the fulfillment of his word. Daniel

might have reasoned in this manner: God has

promised to release his people at the end of

the seventy years, and he will accomplish this

promise; I need not therefore concern myself

at all in the matter. Daniel did not thus reason;

but as the time drew near for the

accomplishment of the word of the Lord, he