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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
thousand times ten thousand who stand
before him, are not sinners arraigned before
the judgment-seat, but heavenly beings who
wait before him, attendant on his will. An
understanding of these verses involves an
understanding of the subject of the sanctuary;
and to works on this question we refer the
reader. The closing up of the ministration of
Christ, our great High Priest, in the heavenly
sanctuary, is the work of judgment here
introduced. It is an investigative judgment.
The books are opened, and the cases of all
come up for examination before that great
tribunal, that it may be determined
beforehand who are to receive eternal life
when the Lord shall come to confer it upon his
people. John, as recorded in Revelation 5, had
a view of this same place, and saw the same
number of heavenly attendants engaged with
