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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
instances. But the sublime scene described

in verse 10, is the opening of the investigative

Judgment in the sanctuary in heaven, as will

appear in remarks on Daniel 8:14 and 9:25-

27. The opening of this judgment scene is

located by the prophecy at the close of the

great prophetic period of 2300 years, which

terminated in 1844. (See under chapter 9:25-

27.) Four years after this, in 1848, the great

revolution which shook so many thrones in

Europe, drove the pope also from his

dominions. His restoration shortly after was

through the force of foreign bayonets, by

which alone he was upheld till his final loss of

temporal power in 1870. The overthrow of the

papacy in 1798, marked the conclusion of the

prophetic period of 1260 years, and

constituted the “deadly wound” prophesied in

Revelation 13:3, to come upon this power; but