Page 10 - 12 The Gospel Church

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 12 – The Gospel Church
to any one who has read how Herod, in a

fiendish effort to destroy the infant Jesus, sent

forth and slew all the children in Bethlehem,

from two years old and under. But who was

Herod? — A Roman governor. From Rome,

Herod derived his power. Rome ruled at that

time over all the world (Luke 2:1), and was

therefore the responsible party in this

transaction. Moreover, Rome was the only

earthly government which at that time could

be symbolized in prophecy, for this very

reason that its dominion was universal. It is

not, therefore, without the most conclusive

reason that the Roman empire is considered

by Protestant commentators generally to be

the power indicated by the great red dragon.

And it may be a fact worth mentioning that

during the second, third, fourth, and fifth

centuries of the Christian era, next to the eagle