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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 3 – The Seven Churches (continued)
himself be subject unto him that put all
things under him, that God may be all in all.”
The truths taught in this portion of Scripture
may perhaps be most briefly expressed by a
slight paraphrase, and by giving, in every
instance, instead of the pronouns, the nouns to
which they respectively refer. Thus: —
“Then cometh the end (of the present
dispensation), when Christ shall have
delivered up the kingdom (which he now
holds conjointly with the Father) to God, even
the Father; when God shall have put down all
rule and all authority and power (that is
opposed to the work of the Son). For Christ
must reign (on the throne of his Father) till the
Father hath put all enemies under Christ’s
feet. [See Psalms 110:1.] The last enemy that
shall be destroyed is death. For God (then)