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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 18 – Babylon, the Daughters
The fact that God’s people are called out so
as not to be partakers of her sins, shows that
it is not till a certain time that people become
guilty by being connected with Babylon; and
this explains how it can be said of the 144,000
(Revelation 14:4), many of whom are the very
ones here called out, that they were not
defiled with women.
Verses 6 and 7 are a prophetic declaration that
she will be rewarded, or punished, according
to her works. Bear in mind that this testimony
applies to that portion of Babylon which is
subject to a moral fall. As already pointed out,
it must apply especially to the “daughters,” the
denominations who persist in clinging to the
personal traits of the “mother,” and keeping
up the family resemblance. These, as pointed
out on a previous page, are to attempt a