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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 12 – The Gospel Church
commencement of Christ’s ministry here

upon earth. To prove that Michael is Christ,

see Jude 9; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; John 5:28,

29; and that this was a special time of warfare

between him and Satan need not be argued.

Another symbol is here introduced, and John

hastens to tell us what this symbol represents.

It is the Devil and Satan. But this is not the

same as the dragon of verses 3 and 4. That was

a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten

horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. It

would be most grotesque to try to apply this

to Satan personally. Satan is not said

anywhere in the Bible to be red, and he is not

blessed with the number of heads and horns

there stated; and while he might, as the god of

this world, have one crown, how would he

manage to wear seven? But all these features