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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
and chain which he has in his hand? what is

the bottomless pit? and what is meant by

binding Satan a thousand years?

1. The Angel. — Is this angel Christ, as some

suppose? — Evidently not. A bright ray of light

is thrown from the old typical service directly

upon this passage. Thus, Christ is the great

High Priest of this dispensation. On the day of

atonement, anciently, two goats were taken by

the priest, upon which lots were cast, one for

the Lord, and the other for the scape-goat. The

one upon which the Lord’s lot fell, was then

slain, and his blood carried into the sanctuary

to make an-atonement for the children of

Israel, after which the sins of the people were

confessed upon the head of the other, or

scapegoat, and he was sent away by the hand

of a fit man into the wilderness, or a place not