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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
spirit of Christ’s mouth, and destroyed by

the brightness of his coming. 2 Thessalonians

2:8. What words could be more arrogant,

presumptuous, blasphemous, or insulting to

high Heaven, than the deliberate adoption of

the dogma of infallibility, thus clothing a

mortal man with a prerogative of the Deity?

And this was accomplished by papal intrigue

and influence, July 21, 1870. Following in swift

succession, the last vestige of temporal power

was wrenched from his grasp. It was because

of these words, and as if in almost immediate

connection with them, that the prophet saw

this power given to the burning flame. His

dominion was to be consumed unto the end,

implying that when his power as a civil ruler

should be wholly destroyed, the end would

not be far off. And the prophet immediately

adds: “And the kingdom and dominion, and