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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
world sadly in need of reformation. Division

and confusion reigned among the churches.

They were still clinging to many papal errors

and superstitions. The power of the gospel

was impaired in their hands. To correct these

evils, the doctrine of the second coming of

Christ was introduced, and proclaimed with

power. They should have received it, and been

quickened by it into new life, as they would

have been had they received it. Instead of this,

they rejected it, and suffered the

consequences spiritually. Then followed the

second message, announcing the result of that

rejection, and declaring what was not only a

fact in itself, but a judicial judgment of God

upon them for their recreancy in this respect;

namely, that God had departed from them, and

they had met with a moral fall.