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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
though the under shepherds, the professed
ministers of Christ on earth, had no care for
the flock, yet the Lord was not unmindful of
them in this period of darkness. A voice comes
from heaven. Re takes care that the spirit of
worldliness does not prevail to such a degree
that Christianity should be entirely lost, or
that the oil and the wine, the graces of genuine
piety, should entirely perish from the earth.
VERSE 7. And when he had opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say,
Come and see. 8. And I looked, and behold a
pale horse: and his name that sat on him was
Death, and Hell followed with him. And power
was given unto them over the fourth part of
the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger,
and with death, and with the beasts of the
earth.