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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
sufficient degree of intensity, would not the

whole earth be converted into gas, and

become invisible, and thus appear most

literally to flee away, so that no place is found

for it? The city would then seem to be, as

virtually it would be, suspended in mid-

heaven.

But the elements are not destroyed. They are

only, by that process, purged from the last and

minutest taint of sin, and every token of the

curse. The almighty fiat again goes forth,

“Behold I make all things new. ... It is done”

(Revelation 21:5, 6), and the particles

combine again to compose a new world; and

there beneath the wondering and admiring

gaze of all the redeemed and the angelic host,

the work of creation is gone through with

again. At the first creation, the morning stars