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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

His prophecy is, in many respects, the most

remarkable of any in the sacred record. It is

the most comprehensive. It was the first

prophecy giving a consecutive history of the

world from that time to the end. It located the

most of its predictions within well-defined

prophetic periods, though reaching many

centuries into the future. It gave the first

definite chronological prophecy of the coming

of the Messiah. It marked the time of this event

so definitely that the Jews forbid any attempt

to interpret its numbers, since that prophecy

shows them to be without excuse in rejecting

Christ; and so accurately had its minute and

literal predictions been fulfilled down to the

time of Porphyry, A. D. 250, that he declared

(the only loophole he could devise for his

hard-pressed skepticism) that the predictions

were not written in the age of Babylon, but