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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 5 – The Heavenly Sanctuary (continued)
beholds the heavenly hosts. (1) Round about

the throne are those represented by the four

living creatures. (2) Next come the four and

twenty elders. (3) Then John views,

surrounding the whole, a multitude of the

heavenly angels. How many? How many

would we suppose could convene within the

heavenly temple? “Ten thousand times ten

thousand!” exclaims the seer. In this

expression alone we have one hundred

million! And then, as if no numerical

expression was adequate to embrace the

countless throng, he further adds, “And

thousands of thousands!” Well might Paul call

this, in Hebrews 12:22, “an innumerable

company of angels.” And these were in the

sanctuary above. Such was the company that

John saw assembled at the place where the

worship of a universe centers, and where the