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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 5 – The Heavenly Sanctuary (continued)
deceiver and deceived. Malachi 4:1:

Hebrews 2:14. Into smoke have they

consumed away. Psalms 37:20. Like the

perishable chaff have they vanished in the

flames. Matthew 3:12. They have been

annihilated, not as matter, but as conscious

and intelligent beings; for they have become

as though they had not been. Obadiah 16.

To the Lamb, equally with the Father who sits

upon the throne, praise is ascribed in this song

of adoration. Commentators, with great

unanimity, have seized upon this as proof that

Christ must be coeval with the Father; for

otherwise, say they, here would be worship

paid to the creature which belongs only to the

Creator. But this does not seem to be a

necessary conclusion. The Scriptures

certainly clearly intimate that the existence of