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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
NOTE. — Some startling events relative to

the papacy, filling up the prophecies uttered in

this chapter concerning that power, have

taken place within a few years of the present

time. Commencing in 1798, where the first

great blow fell upon the papacy, what have

been the chief characteristics of its history?

Answer: The rapid defection of its natural

supporters, and greater assumptions on its

own part. In 1844, the judgment of verse 10

began to sit; namely, the investigative

Judgment, in the heavenly sanctuary,

preparatory to the coming of Christ. Dec. 8,

1854, the dogma of the Immaculate

Conception was decreed by the pope. July 21,

1870, in the great Ecumenical Council

assembled at Rome, it was deliberately

decreed, by a vote of 538 against 2, that the

pope was infallible. In the same year, France,