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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 21 – The New Jerusalem
says, “I make all things new;” not, I make all

new things. The earth is not destroyed,

annihilated, and a new one created, but all

things are made over new. Let us rejoice that

these words are true and faithful. And when

this is accomplished, all will be ready for the

utterance of that sublime sentence, “It is

done.” The dark shadow of sin has then

forever passed off from the universe. The

wicked, root and branch (Malachi 4:1), are

wiped out of the land of the living, and the

universal anthem of praise and thanksgiving

(Revelation 5:13) goes up from a redeemed

world and a clean universe to a covenant-

keeping God.

VERSE 7. He that overcometh shall inherit all

things; and I will be his God, and he shall be

my son. 8. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and