Page 32 - 11 The Two Witnesses

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 11 – The Two Witnesses
upon the tables therein deposited. And that

the tables of the law are there, just as in the

ark in the sanctuary erected by Moses, is

evident from the terms which John uses in

describing the ark. He calls it the “ark of his

testament.” The ark was called the ark of the

covenant, or testament, because it was made

for the express purpose of containing the

tables of the testimony, or ten

commandments. Exodus 25:16; 31:18;

Deuteronomy 10:2, 5. It was put to no other

use, and owed its name solely to the fact that

it contained the tables of the law. If the tables

were not therein, it would not be the ark of his

(God’s) testament, and could not truthfully be

so called. Yet John, beholding the ark in

heaven under the sounding of the seventh

trumpet, still calls it the “ark of his testament,”

affording unanswerable proof that the law is