Page 86 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
13th and 14th verses of this chapter. We

wait for the heavens to depart as a scroll when

it is rolled together. And these are times of

unparalleled solemnity and importance; for

we know not how near we may be to the

fulfillment of these things.

This departing of the heavens is included in

what the evangelists call, in the same series of

events, the shaking of the powers of the

heavens. Other scriptures give us further

particulars concerning this prediction. From

Hebrews 12:25-27, Joel 3:16, Jeremiah 25:30-

33, Revelation 16:17, we learn that it is the

voice of God, as he speaks in terrible majesty

from his throne in heaven, that causes this

fearful commotion in earth and sky. Once the

Lord spoke, when with an audible voice he

declared to his creatures the precepts of his