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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
of probation or a mixed millennium after the

Lord comes.

The adverb then, in the sentence, “I beheld

then because of the voice of the great words

which the horn spake,” etc., seems to refer to

some particular time. The work of the

investigative judgment is introduced in the

previous verses; and this verse would seem to

imply that while this work is going forward,

and just before this power is destroyed and

given to the burning flame, the little horn

utters its great words against the Most High.

Have we not heard them, and that, too, within

a few years? Look at the decrees of the Vatican

Council of 1870. What can be more

blasphemous than to attribute infallibility to a

mortal man? Yet in that year the world beheld

the spectacle of an Ecumenical Council