Page 25 - 01 The Opening Vision

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
world, but also in that which is to come.” The

highest names named in this world, are the

princes, kings, emperors, and potentates of

earth. But Christ is placed far above them. He

is seated with his Father upon the throne of

universal dominion (chapter 3:21), and ranks

equally with him in the overruling and

controlling of the affairs of all the nations of

the earth.

In a more particular sense, Christ is to be

Prince of the kings of the earth when he takes

his own throne, and the kingdoms of this

world become the “kingdoms of our Lord and

of his Christ,” when they are given by the

Father into his hands, and he comes forth

bearing upon his vesture the title of “King of

kings and Lord of lords,” to dash them in