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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
in making an application of these days so

indefinitely introduced, the whole scope of the

prophecy should certainly be taken in from

chapter 8. Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 are

clearly a continuation and explanation of the

vision of chapter 8; hence we may say that in

the vision of chapter 8, as carried out and

explained, there are four prophetic periods;

namely, the 2300, 1260, 1290, and 1335 days.

The first is the principal and longest period;

the others are but intermediate parts and

subdivisions of this. Now, when the angel tells

Daniel, at the conclusion of his instructions,

that he shall stand in his lot at the end of the

days, without specifying which period was

meant, would not Daniel’s mind naturally turn

to the principal and longest period, the 2300

days, rather than to any of its subdivisions? If

this is so, the 2300 are the days intended. The