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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
this is so, which will appear in the

development of this argument, should set

every pulse bounding, and every heart beating

high with a sense of the thrilling importance

of this hour.

Three positions only are possible on this

question of the chronology of this prophecy,

and as might be expected, all of them are taken

by different expositors. These positions are

(1) That this message has been given in the

past; as, first, in the days of the apostles; or,

secondly, in the days of the Reformers; (2)

that it is to be given in a future age; or (3) that

it belongs to the present generation.

We inquire, first, respecting the past. The very

nature of the message forbids the idea that it

could have been given in the apostles’ days.

They did not proclaim that the hour of God’s