Page 5 - 04 A New Vision - The Heavenly Sanctuary

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 4 – A New Vision: The Heavenly Sanctuary
John had a vision upon the Sabbath, or

Lord’s day. If it there expressed the state of

being in vision, it would denote the same thing

here; and consequently the first vision ended

with chapter 3, and a new one is here

introduced. Nor is it any objection to this view

that John, previous to this, as is learned from

the first verse of this chapter, was in such a

spiritual state as to be able to look up and see

a door opened in heaven, and to hear a voice,

like the mighty sound of a trumpet, calling him

up to a nearer prospect of heavenly things. It

is evident that there may be such states of

ecstasy independent of vision, just as Stephen,

full of the Holy Ghost, could look up and see

the heavens opened, and the Son of man on the

right hand of God. To be in the Spirit denotes

a still higher state of spiritual elevation. On