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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
living wicked at Christ’s coming drink of the

“cup” of his indignation; but this passage

brings to view the time when they perish in

the “winepress” of his wrath, which is said to

be trodden “without the city,” answering

completely to the description of Revelation

20:9; and this latter expression would more

naturally denote their complete and final

destruction.

The angel comes out of the temple, where the

records are kept and the punishment is

determined. The other angel has power over

fire. This may have some connection with the

fact that fire is the element by which the

wicked are at last to be destroyed, although, to

carry out the figure, the wicked, having been

likened to the clusters of the vine of the earth,

are said to be cast into the great winepress,