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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 11 – The Two Witnesses
upon them, and the final destiny of both
saints and sinners. This field of vision having
been scanned, we are taken back once more in
the verse now under notice, and our attention
is called to the close of the priesthood of
Christ, the last scene in the work of mercy for
a guilty world. The temple is opened; the
second apartment of the sanctuary is entered.
We know it is the holy of holies that is here
opened; for the ark is seen; and in that
apartment alone the ark was deposited. This
took place at the end of the 2300 days, when
the sanctuary was to be cleansed, the time
when the prophetic periods expired, and the
seventh angel commenced to sound. Since that
time, the people of God have seen by faith the
open door in heaven, and the ark of God’s
testament there. They are endeavoring to
keep every precept of the holy law written