Page 66 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
These signs in the sun, moon, and stars, are

the same as those so strikingly predicted by

our Lord, and recorded by the evangelists in

Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. In these

records, not only the same signs are given, but

the same time is pointed out for their

fulfilment; namely, a period commencing just

this side of the long and bloody persecution of

the papal power. In Matthew 24:21, 22, the

1260 years of papal supremacy are brought to

view; and “immediately after the tribulation of

those days” (verse 29) the sun was to be

darkened, etc. Mark is still more definite, and

says, “In those days, after that tribulation.”

The days, commencing in A. D. 538, ended in

1798; but before they ended, the spirit of

persecution had been restrained by the

Reformation, and that tribulation of the

church had ceased. And in this period, exactly