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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)
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