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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
pledged Redeemer of his people. Then

grieve not for the righteous dead; they are in

safe keeping. An enemy for a while takes them

away; but a friend holds the key to the place of

their temporary confinement.

VERSE 19. Write the things which thou hast

seen, and the things which are, and the things

which shall be hereafter.

A more definite command is given in this

verse to John to write the entire Revelation,

which would relate chiefly to things which

were then in the future. In some few instances,

events then in the past or then transpiring

were referred to; but these references were

simply for the purpose of introducing events

to be fulfilled after that time, and so that no

link in the chain might be lacking.