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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
that the smiting is not done by an agent

acting for another, not by the church, for

instance, in the hands of Christ; but it is a work

which the Lord does by his own divine power,

without any human agency.

4. Again, the kingdom of God is placed before

the church as a matter of hope. The Lord did

not teach his disciples a prayer which in two

or three years was to become obsolete. The

petition may as appropriately ascend from the

lips of the patient, waiting flock in these last

days, as from the lips of his first disciples, “Thy

kingdom come.”

5. We have plain Scripture declarations to

establish the following propositions: (1) The

kingdom was still future at the time of our

Lord’s last Passover. Matthew 26:29. (2)

Christ did not set it up before his ascension.