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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
time in that proclamation, extends to the
cleansing of the sanctuary. That the cleansing
of the sanctuary is not the cleansing of any
part of the earth, but that it is the last work of
our great High Priest in the heavenly
tabernacle before his advent to the earth, has
been clearly shown. [See on Daniel 8:14.] And
we understand that it is while the work of
cleansing the sanctuary is taking place, that
the latest message of mercy is proclaimed.
Thus it will be seen that the prophetic periods,
and the proclamation which is based upon
them, do not extend to the coming of the
Lord.”
That the mistake made by Adventists in 1844
was not in the time, has been shown by the
argument on the seventy weeks and twenty-
three hundred days in Daniel 9; that it was in