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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 19 – The Triumph of the Saints
Almighty God,” be a very singular
description of a work of grace upon the hearts
of the heathen for their conversion? The great
and final display of the “winepress of God’s
wrath,” and also of “the lake of fire,” occurs at
the end of the thousand years, as described in
chapter 20; and to that it would seem that the
full and formal description of Revelation
14:18-20 must apply. But the destruction of
the living wicked at the second coming of
Christ, at the beginning of the thousand years,
furnishes a scene on a smaller scale, similar, in
both these respects, to what takes place at the
close of that period. Hence in the verses before
us we have this mention of both the winepress
of wrath and the lake of fire.
Christ has at this time closed his mediatorial
work, and laid off his priestly robes for kingly
