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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
learn therefrom “the things which must

shortly come to pass,” and which concern

their eternal salvation.

His Angel. — Christ sent and made known the

Revelation to John by “his angel.” A particular

angel seems here to be brought to view. What

angel could appropriately be called Christ’s

angel? May we not find an answer to this

question in a significant passage in the

prophecy of Daniel? In Daniel 10:21, an angel,

which was doubtless Gabriel (see Daniel,

chapters 9, 10, and 11:1), in making known

some important truths to Daniel, said, “There

is none that holdeth with me in these things,

but Michael your prince.” Who Michael is we

easily learn. Jude (verse 9) calls him the

“archangel.” And Paul tells us that when the

Lord descends from heaven, and the dead in