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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
The Exaltation of the Saints. — From the

Devil in his gloomy confinement, John now

directs our attention to the saints in victory

and glory, — the saints reigning with Christ —

their employment being to assign to the

wicked dead the punishment due their evil

deeds. From that general assembly John then

selects two classes as worthy of especial

attention: first, the martyrs, those who had

been beheaded for the witness of Jesus; and

secondly, those who had not worshiped the

beast and his image. This class, the ones who

refuse the mark of the beast and his image, are

of course the ones who hear and obey the

third message of Revelation 14; but these are

not the ones who are beheaded for the witness

of Jesus, as some who claim that the last

generation of saints are all to be slain, would

have us believe. The word rendered which, in