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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 12 – The Gospel Church
the church, which, not far from that time,

fled into the wilderness. When Satan therefore

found himself thus overthrown, the man child

had already been brought forth, or, in other

words, the first advent of Christ had taken

place. Hence this war and defeat of Satan,

taking place this side of the Christian era, and

not a great length of time before the church

went into the wilderness in 538, cannot be his

fall from heaven before the creation of the

world; though that was a war in heaven.

Again, there seem to be a number of instances

in which Satan is spoken of as defeated, or cast

down. One was his first rejection from heaven;

another, when Christ overcame him at his first

advent; and there will be another in the future,

when he is cast into the bottomless pit, and

shut up for a thousand years. And on each