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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                            ~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

                                           Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
                   finished. Then the great scheme devised at


               the fall for the salvation of as many of the lost


               race  as  would  avail  themselves  of  its


               provisions,  and  carried  forward  for  six


               thousand  years,  is  brought  to  its  final


               termination. Mercy no longer pleads, and the



               great  voice  is  heard  from  the  throne  in  the


               temple  in  heaven,  saying,  “It  is  done.”


               Revelation 16:17. And what then? — All the


               righteous are safe for everlasting life; all the


               wicked are doomed to everlasting death. No


               decision  can  be  changed,  no  reward  can  be


               lost, and no destiny of despair can be averted,


               beyond that point.



               And we have seen (and this is what brings the


               solemnities of the Judgment to our own door)


               that that long prophetic period which was to


               mark the commencement of this final work in
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