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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
supreme in the minds of souls in heaven as

to render them, despite the joy and glory of

that ineffable state, dissatisfied and uneasy till

vengeance was inflicted upon their enemies?

Would they not rather rejoice that

persecution raised its hand against them, and

thus hastened them into the presence of their

Redeemer, at whose right hand there is

fulness of joy, and pleasures forevermore?

But, further, the popular view which puts

these souls in heaven, puts the wicked at the

same time in the lake of fire, writhing in

unutterable torment, and in full view of the

heavenly host. This, it is claimed, is proved by

the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, as

recorded in Luke 16. Now the souls brought to

view under the fifth seal were those who had

been slain under the preceding seal, scores of

years, and most of them centuries, before.