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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
wicked does not take place till a thousand
years after the second advent. Chapter 20:1-6.
On this point Daniel informs us. He says
(chapter 12:1, 2): —
“And at that time shall Michael stand up, the
great prince which standeth for the children of
thy people: and there shall be a time of
trouble, such as never was since there was a
nation even to that same time: and at that time
thy people shall be delivered, every one that
shall be found written in the book. And many
of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall
awake, some to everlasting life, and some to
shame and everlasting contempt.”
Here a partial resurrection is brought to view,
or a resurrection of a certain class of each,
righteous and wicked, before the general
resurrection of either class. Many, not all, that