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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 8 – Vision of the Ram, He-Goat & Little Horn
own blood (verse 12) “into the holy place

[where also the Greek has the plural, the holy

places], having obtained eternal redemption

for us.” Of these heavenly holy places,

therefore, the first tabernacle was a figure for

the time then present. If any further testimony

is needed, he speaks, in verse 28, of the earthly

tabernacle, with its apartments and

instruments, as patterns of things in the

heavens; and in verse 21, he calls the holy

places made with hands, that is, the earthly

tabernacle erected by Moses, figures of the

true; that is, the tabernacle in heaven.

This view is still further corroborated by the

testimony of John. Among the things which he

was permitted to behold in heaven, he saw

seven lamps of fire burning before the throne

(Revelation 4:5); he saw an altar of incense,