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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
Israel.” The margin reads instead of “hope,”
“place of repair, or harbor.” Then, at this time,
when God’s voice is heard from heaven, just
previous to the coming of the Son of man, God
is a harbor for his people, or, which is the same
thing, provides them deliverance. Here, then,
at the voice of God, when the decisions of
eternity are pronounced upon the race, and
the last stupendous scene is just to open upon
a doomed world, God gives to the astonished
nations another evidence and pledge of his
power, and raises from the dead a multitude
who have long slept in the dust of the earth.
Thus we see that there is a time and place for
the resurrection of Daniel 12:2. We now add
that a passage in the book of Revelation makes
it necessary to suppose a resurrection of this
kind to take place. Revelation 1:7 reads:
