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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
massacres, and religious wars excited by the

church and bishop of Rome, have occasioned

the shedding of far more blood of the saints of

the Most High, than all the enmity, hostility,

and persecutions of professed heathens from

the foundation of the world.

In verse 22 three consecutive events seem to

be brought to view. Daniel, looking onward

from the time when the little horn was in the

height of its power, to the full end of the long

contest between the saints and Satan with all

his agents, notes three prominent events that

stand as mile-posts along the way. (1) The

coming of the Ancient of days; that is, the

position which Jehovah takes in the opening of

the judgment scene described in verses 9, 10.

(2) The judgment that is given to the saints;

that is, the time when the saints sit with Christ