Page 9 - 06 The Seven Seals

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 6 - The Seven Seals
and suffered to go on and introduce many

other errors, and oppose some important

truths. Controversies arose; and when a new

emperor took the throne, there was a rush of

the clergy to get him on the side of their

peculiar tenets. Mosheim says of this period,

‘There was continual war and trouble.’”

This state of things answers well to the

declaration of the prophet that power was

given to him that sat on the horse “to take

peace from the earth, and that they should kill

one another: and there was given unto him a

great sword.” The Christianity of that time had

mounted the throne, and bore the emblem of

the civil power.

VERSE 5. And when he had opened the third

seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.

And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that