Page 24 - 14 The Three Messages

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
future from his day. Such records ought to be

decisive, so far as the Reformers are

concerned.

The foregoing considerations being sufficient

to forbid utterly the application of the

message to the past, we now turn to that view

which locates it in a future age. By “future age”

is meant a period subsequent to the second

advent; and the reason urged for locating the

message in that age is the fact that John saw

the angel flying through heaven, immediately

after having seen the Lamb standing on Mount

Zion with the 144,000, which is a future event.

If the book of Revelation were one consecutive

prophecy, there would be force in this

reasoning; but as it consists of a series of

independent lines of prophecy, and as it has

already been shown that one such chain ends