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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
1. The entire book of Revelation (see chapter

1:3, 11, 19; 22:18, 19) was dedicated to the

seven churches. Verse 11. But the book was no

more applicable to them than to other

Christians in Asia Minor, — those, for

instance, who dwelt in Pontus, Galatia,

Cappadocia, and Bithynia, addressed in 1

Peter 1:1; or the Christians of Colosse, Troas,

and Miletus, in the very midst of the churches

named.

2. Only a small portion of the book could have

personally concerned the seven churches, or

any of the Christians of John’s day; for the

events it brings to view were mostly so far in

the future as to lie beyond the lifetime of the

generation then living, or even the time during

which those churches would continue; and