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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