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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
continual abomination, that is, paganism.

(See on chapter 8:13.) This had to be taken

away to prepare the way for the papacy. For

the historical events showing how this was

accomplished in 508, see on chapter 11:31.

We are not told directly to what event these

1290 days reach; but inasmuch as their

commencement is marked by a work which

takes place to prepare the way for the setting

up of the papacy, it would be most natural to

conclude that their end would be marked by

the cessation of papal supremacy. Counting

back, then, 1290 years from 1798, we have the

year 508, where it has been shown that

paganism was taken away, thirty years before

the setting up of the papacy. This period is

doubtless given to show the date of the taking

away of the daily, and it is the only one which

does this. The two periods, therefore, the