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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