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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 1 – The Opening Vision
Christ are raised, the voice of the archangel

shall be heard. 1 Thessalonians 4:16. And

whose voice will be heard at that amazing

hour when the dead are called to life? The

Lord himself replies, “Marvel not at this; for

the hour is coming in the which all that are in

the graves shall hear his voice” (John 5:28);

and the previous verse shows that the one

here referred to, whose voice will then be

heard, is the Son of man, or Christ. It is the

voice of Christ, then, that calls the dead from

their graves. That voice, Paul declares, is the

voice of the archangel; and Jude says that the

archangel is called Michael, the very

personage mentioned in Daniel, and all

referring to Christ. The statement in Daniel,

then, is, that the truths to be revealed to Daniel

were committed to Christ, and confined

exclusively to him, and to an angel whose