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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 2-The Great Image
possess a nationality of its own, distinct

from the other three. And this we find in the

Roman kingdom, and in it alone. But,

3. The grand fallacy which underlies this

whole system of misinterpretation, is the too

commonly taught theory that the kingdom of

God was set up at the first advent of Christ. It

can easily be seen how fatal to this theory is

the admission that the fourth empire is Rome.

For it was to be after the division of that fourth

empire, that the God of heaven was to set up

his kingdom. But the division of the Roman

empire into ten parts was not accomplished

previous to A. D. 476; consequently the

kingdom of God could not have been set up at

the first advent of Christ, nearly five hundred

years before that date. Rome must not,

therefore, from their standpoint, though it