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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
Political life and dominion, it is true, have

passed from one to the other, till, so far as the

image is concerned, it is all now concentrated

in the divisions of the fourth kingdom; but the

others, in location and substance, though

without dominion, are still there; and together

all will be dashed to pieces when the fifth

kingdom is introduced.

It may still further be asked, by way of

objection, Have not the ten kingdoms, in the

days of which the kingdom of God was to be

set up, all passed away? and as the kingdom of

God is not yet set up, has not the prophecy,

according to the view here advocated, proved

a failure? We answer, Those kingdoms have

not yet passed away. We are yet in the days of

those kings. The following illustration from