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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 3 – The Seven Churches (continued)
third message, the last message of mercy

before the coming of Christ (see chapter 14:9-

14), while the great day of atonement is

transpiring, and the investigative Judgment is

going forward upon the house of God, — a

period during which the just and holy law of

God is taken by the waiting church as their

rule of life.

These Things Saith the Amen. — This is, then,

the final message to the churches ere the close

of probation. And though the description of

their condition which he gives to the

indifferent Laodiceans is fearful and startling,

nevertheless it cannot be denied; for the

Witness is “faithful and true.” Moreover, he is

“the beginning of the creation of God.” Some

understand by this language that Christ was

the first created being, dating his existence