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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
government of the United States. We trust
the reader will now feel impatient for some of
the reasons for such an application, and will
carefully consider the evidence by which it is
supported.
1. Probabilities Considered. — Are there any
reasons why we should expect that our own
government would be mentioned in
prophecy? On what conditions have other
nations found a place in the prophetic record?
— First, if they have acted any prominent part
in the world’s history; and secondly, and
above all, if they have had jurisdiction over, or
maintained any relations with, the people of
God. In the records of the Bible and of secular
history, we find data from which to deduce
this rule respecting the prophetic mention of
earthly governments; namely, whenever the
