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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
solicitous to do this, because this anti-

Christian power has worked so cunningly that

the majority are deceived into making

unconscious concessions to its authority. It is

shown that the mark of the beast is an

institution which has been arrayed in

Christian garb, and insidiously introduced

into the Christian church in such a way as to

nullify the authority of Jehovah and enthrone

that of the beast. Stripped of all disguises, it is

simply setting up a counterfeit Sabbath of its

own on the first day of the week, in place of the

Sabbath of the Lord on the seventh day, — a

usurpation which the great God cannot

tolerate, and from which the remnant church

must fully clear itself before it will be

prepared for the coming of Christ. Hence the

urgent warning, Let no man worship the beast

or receive his mark.