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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
sins, and so turning away the minds of men

from the mediatorial work of Christ and his

heavenly assistants in the sanctuary above.

By verse 10 we are again referred to the

events of 1798, when that power that had for

1260 years led the saints of God into captivity,

was led into captivity itself, as already noticed.

VERSE 11. And I beheld another beast coming

up out of the earth; and he had two horns like

a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12. And he

exerciseth all the power of the first beast

before him, and causeth the earth and them

which dwell therein to worship the first beast,

whose deadly wound was healed. 13. And he

doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire

came down from heaven on the earth in the

sight of men, 14. And deceiveth them that

dwell on the earth by the means of those