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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
the nature of the event to occur at the end of

those days, has been shown in the argument

on the sanctuary in Daniel 8. Supposing that

the earth was the sanctuary, and that its

cleansing was to be accomplished by fire at

the revelation of the Lord from heaven, they

naturally looked for the appearing of Christ at

the end of the days. And through their

misapprehension on this point, they met with

a crushing disappointment, though everything

which the prophecy declared, and everything

which they were warranted to expect, took

place with absolute accuracy at that time.

There the cleansing of the sanctuary began;

but this did not bring Christ to this earth, for

the earth is not the sanctuary; and its

cleansing does not involve the destruction of

the earth, for it is accomplished with the blood

of a sacrificial offering, not with fire. Here was