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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
trusting disciples were most sadly

disappointed when he whom they expected to

deliver Israel was by wicked hands taken and

slain. And after his resurrection, when they

expected him to restore again the kingdom to

Israel, they could not but be disappointed

when they understood that he was going away

to his Father, and that they were to be left for

a long season to tribulation and anguish. But

disappointment does not prove that God has

no hand in the guidance of his people. It

should lead them to correct their errors, but it

should not lead them to cast away their

confidence in God. It was because the children

of Israel were disappointed in the wilderness

that they so often denied divine guidance.

They are set forth as an admonition to us, that

we should not fall after the same example of

unbelief.