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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 12 – The Gospel Church
3:21. No other one has received from God

the commission to rule all nations with a rod

of iron; but he has been appointed to this

work. Psalms 2:7-9.

There can certainly be no doubt that the man

child represents Jesus Christ. The time to

which the prophecy refers is equally evident.

It was the time when Christ appeared in this

world as a babe in Bethlehem.

Having now ascertained who the man child

was, namely, Christ; and having fixed the

chronology of the prophecy at the time when

he was born into this world, it will be easy to

find the power symbolized by the dragon; for

the dragon represents some power which did

attempt to destroy him at his birth. Was any

such attempt made? and who made it? No

formal answer to this question need be given