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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
but for the Lord to appear and take his

people to himself. It is doubtless the day-and-

night cry spoken of by our Lord in Luke 18:7,

8 in connection with the coming of the Son of

man. And this prayer will be answered; the

elect will be avenged; for does not the parable

read, “And shall not God avenge his own elect,

which cry day and night unto him?” He that is

seated upon the cloud will thrust in his sickle,

and the saints, under the figure of the wheat of

the earth, will be gathered into the heavenly

garner.

The Wheat Garnered. — “And he that sat on

the cloud,” says the prophecy, “thrust in his

sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.”

By this language we are carried down past the

second Advent, with its accompanying scenes

of destruction to the wicked and salvation to