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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
voice of God has shaken it to its foundations;

the islands and mountains have been moved

out of their places; the great earthquake has

leveled to the earth the mightiest works of

man; the seven last plagues have left their all-

desolating footprints over the earth; the

burning glory attending the coming of the Son

of man has borne its part in accomplishing the

general desolation; the wicked have been

given to the slaughter, and their putrefying

flesh and bleaching bones lie unburied,

ungathered, and unlamented from one end of

the earth to the other end thereof. Thus is the

earth made empty and waste, and turned

upside down. Isaiah 24:1. Thus is it brought

back again, partially, at least, to its original

state of confusion and chaos. (See Jeremiah

4:19-26, especially verse 23.) And what better

term could be used to describe the earth thus