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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
the church was fully established, that

mortality cannot inherit it, and that it is to be

set up only in connection with the coming of

our Lord to judgment, the reference cannot be

to any state or organization here upon earth.

The object we have before us is to ascertain

what constitutes the kingdom of Daniel 2:44;

and we have seen that the prophecy utterly

forbids our applying it there to the church,

inasmuch as by the terms of the prophecy

itself we are prohibited from looking for that

kingdom till over four hundred years after the

crucifixion of Christ and the establishment of

the gospel church. Therefore if in some

expressions in the New Testament the word

“kingdom” can be found applying to the work

of God’s grace, or the spread of the gospel, it

cannot in such instances be the kingdom

brought to view in Daniel. That can only be the