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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
other prophecies show; and in immediate

connection with that, as Joel and John plainly

declare, the coming of the Lord is to take place.

If the objector still insists that according to our

application the stars should have fallen before

1798, because the prophecy says, “And the

stars of heaven shall fall,” we reply that then

all the other events should also have taken

place before 1798; for they are all connected

in the same way. But this we have shown to be

impossible.

And the Heaven Departed as a Scroll. — In this

event our minds are turned to the future.

From looking at the past, and beholding the

word of God fulfilled, we are now called to

look at events in the future, which are no less

sure to come. Here is our position,

unmistakably defined. We stand between the