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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
22:12. In the books of remembrance kept by

the heavenly scribes above, every man’s deeds

will be found recorded (Revelation 20:12);

and in the closing sanctuary work these

records are examined, and decision is

rendered in accordance therewith. Daniel 7:9,

10. It would be most natural to suppose that

the work would commence with the first

members of the human race; that their cases

would be first examined, and decision

rendered, and so on with all the dead,

generation by generation, in chronological

succession along the stream of time, till we

reach the last generation, — the generation of

the living with whose cases the work would

close. How long it will take to examine the

cases of all the dead, how soon the work will

reach the cases of the living, no man can know.

And as above remarked, since the year 1844,