Page 17 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
engaged after worldly goods, and the love of

money would be the prevailing spirit of the

times; for they would dispose of anything for

money.” — Id.

The Oil and Wine. — These “denote the graces

of the Spirit, faith and love, and there was

great danger of hurting these, under the

influence of so much of a worldly spirit. And it

is well attested by all historians that the

prosperity of the church in this age produced

the corruptions which finally terminated in

the falling away, and the setting up of the anti-

Christian abominations.” — Id.

It will be observed that the voice limiting the

amount of wheat for a penny, and saying,

“Hurt not the oil and the wine,” is not spoken

by any one on earth, but comes from the midst

of the four living creatures; signifying that,