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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
We here reach the climax of this stupendous

prophecy; and when Time in his onward flight

shall bring us to the sublime scene here

predicted, we shall have reached the end of

human history. The kingdom of God! Grand

provision for a new and glorious dispensation,

in which his people shall find a happy

terminus of this world’s sad, degenerate, and

changing career. Transporting change for all

the righteous, from gloom to glory, from strife

to peace, from a sinful to a holy world, from

death to life, from tyranny and oppression to

the happy freedom and blessed privileges of a

heavenly kingdom! Glorious transition, from

weakness to strength, from the changing and

decaying to the immutable and eternal!

But when is this kingdom to be established?

May we hope for an answer to an inquiry of