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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 12 – The Gospel Church
the dragon was the principal standard of the

Roman legions; and that dragon was painted

red, as though, in faithful response to the

picture held up by the seer of Patmos, they

would exclaim to the world, We are the nation

which that picture represents.

As we have said, Rome, in the person of Herod,

attempted to destroy Jesus Christ when he

sent forth and destroyed all the children of

Bethlehem from two years old and under. The

child which was born to the expectant desires

of a waiting and watching church, was our

adorable Redeemer, who is soon to rule the

nations with a rod of iron. Herod could not

destroy him; the combined powers of earth

and hell could not overcome him; and though

held for a time under the dominion of the

grave, he rent its cruel bands, opened a way of