Page 113 - 02 The Great Image

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
time, and the work in which it is engaged is

not that of smiting and overthrowing earthly

governments.

2. The fifth kingdom is introduced by the stone

smiting the image. What part of the image

does the stone smite?

The feet and toes. But these were not

developed until four centuries and a half after

the crucifixion of Christ. The image was, at the

time of the crucifixion, only developed to the

thighs, so to speak; and if the kingdom of God

was there set up, if there the stone smote the

image, it smote it upon the thighs, not upon

the feet, where the prophecy places the

smiting.

3. The stone that smites the image is cut out of

the mountain without hands. The margin

reads, “Which was not in hand.” This shows