Page 12 - 12 Closing Scenes

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
the oppression and slaughter of the church

by the papal power, is already past; while the

time of trouble of Daniel 12:1, is, according to

the view we take, still future. How can there be

two times of trouble, many years apart, each

of them greater than any that had been before

it, or should be after it? To avoid difficulty

here, let this distinction be carefully noticed:

The tribulation spoken of in Matthew is

tribulation upon the church. Christ is there

speaking to his disciples, and of his disciples

in coming time. They were the ones involved,

and for their sake the days of tribulation were

to be shortened. Verse 22. Whereas, the time

of trouble mentioned in Daniel is not a time of

religious persecution, but of national calamity.

There has been nothing like it since there was

— not a church, but — a nation. This comes

upon the world. This is the last trouble to