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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
1. This fifth kingdom, then, could not have

been set up at Christ’s first advent, because it

is not to exist contemporaneously with

earthly governments, but to succeed them. As

the second kingdom succeeded the first, the

third the second, and the fourth the third, by

violence and overthrow, so the fifth succeeds

the fourth. It does not exist at the same time

with it. The fourth kingdom is first destroyed,

the fragments are removed, the territory is

cleared, and then the fifth is established as a

succeeding kingdom in the order of time. But

the church has existed contemporaneously

with earthly governments ever since earthly

governments were formed. There was a

church in Abel’s day, in Enoch’s, in Noah’s, in

Abraham’s, and so on to the present. No; the

church is not the stone that smote the image

upon the feet. It existed too early in point of