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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
reading of the Septuagint seems to look very

plainly in this direction: “But go thy way and

rest; for there are yet days and seasons to the

full accomplishment [of these things]; and

thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the

days.” This certainly carries the mind back to

the long period contained in the first vision, in

relation to which the subsequent instructions

were given.

The 2300 days, as has been already shown,

terminated in 1844, and brought us to the

cleansing of the sanctuary. How did Daniel at

that time stand in his lot? Answer: In the

person of his Advocate, our great High Priest,

as he presents the cases of the righteous for

acceptance to his Father. The word here

translated lot does not mean a piece of real

estate, a “lot” of land, but the “decisions of