Page 22 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
their condition? What is meant by their cry

for vengeance? What is meant by white robes

being given to them? When do they rest for a

little season? and what is signified by their

brethren being killed as they were? To all

these questions we believe a satisfactory

answer can be returned.

1. The Fifth Seal Covers a Period of Time. — It

seems consistent that this seal, like all the

others, should cover a period of time; and the

date of its application cannot be mistaken, if

the preceding seals have been rightly located.

Following the period of the papal persecution,

the time covered by this seal would

commence when the Reformation began to

undermine the antichristian papal fabric, and

restrain the persecuting power of the Romish

Church.