Page 78 - 09 The Seventy Weeks

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 9 – The Seventy Weeks
alas! what shall we say of them! — deceived

with error, crazed with cares and business,

delirious with pleasure, and paralyzed with

vice, they have not a moment to spare in

listening to solemn truth, nor a thought to

bestow upon their eternal interests. Let the

people of God, with eternity right in view, be

careful to escape the corruption that is in the

world through lust, and prepare to pass the

searching test, when their cases shall come up

for examination at the great tribunal above.

To the careful attention of every student of

prophecy we commend the subject of the

sanctuary. In the sanctuary is seen the ark of

God’s testament, containing his holy law; and

this suggests a reform in our obedience to that

great standard of morality. The opening of this

heavenly temple, or the commencement of the