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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
which are of Israel; neither, because they are
the seed of Abraham, are they all children.” In
Galatians 3:28, 29, Paul further tells us that in
Christ there are no such outward distinctions
as Jew or Greek; but if we are Christ’s, then are
we Abraham’s seed (in the true sense), and
heirs according to the promise. To say, as
some do, that the term Jew is never applied to
Christians, is to contradict all these inspired
declarations of Paul’s, and the testimony of the
faithful and true Witness to the Smyrnian
church. Some were hypocritically pretending
to be Jews in this Christian sense, when they
possessed nothing of the requisite character.
Such were of the synagogue of Satan.
Tribulation Ten Days. — As this message is
prophetic, the time mentioned in it must also
be regarded as prophetic, and would denote
