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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                         Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
                   facility  of  Nahum’s  chariots;  he  was  a


               humble man, dressed in camel’s hair, and he


               performed no  miracles.  If  the  Pharisees  and


               lawyers  rejected  the  counsel  of  God  against


               themselves in not being baptized of John, how


               great must be the guilt of those who reject the



               warning sent by God to prepare the way of the


               second advent!



               “But those were disappointed who expected


               the Lord in 1843 and 1844. This fact is with


               many a sufficient reason for rejecting all the


               testimony  in  this  case.  We  acknowledge  the


               disappointment, but cannot acknowledge that


               this  furnishes  a  just  reason  for  denying  the


               hand of God in this work. The Jewish church


               was  disappointed  when,  at  the  close  of  the


               work  of  John  the  Baptist,  Jesus  presented


               himself  as  the  promised  Messiah.  And  the
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