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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 12– Closing Scenes
chance,” or the “determinations of

Providence.” At the end of the days, the lot, so

to speak, was to be cast. In other words, a

determination was to be made in reference to

those who should be accounted worthy of a

possession in the heavenly inheritance. And

when Daniel’s case comes up for examination,

he is found righteous, stands in his lot, is

assigned a place in the heavenly Canaan. Does

not the psalmist refer to this time and event,

when he says (Ps. 1:5), “The ungodly shall not

stand in the Judgment”?

When Israel was about to enter into the

promised land, the lot was cast, and the

possession of each tribe was assigned. The

tribes thus stood in their respective “lots” long

before they entered upon the actual

possession of the land. The time of the