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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
work then commenced again in the holy

place, and went forward till another day of

atonement completed the year’s work. And so

on, year by year. This continual repetition of

the work was necessary on account of the

short lives of mortal priests. But no such

necessity exists in the case of our divine Lord,

who ever liveth to make intercession for us.

(See Hebrews 7:23-25.) Hence the work of the

heavenly sanctuary, instead of being a yearly

work, is performed once for all. Instead of

being repeated year by year, one grand cycle

is allotted to it, in which it is carried forward,

and finished, never to be repeated.

One year’s round of service in the earthly

sanctuary represented the entire work of the

sanctuary above. In the type, the cleansing of

the sanctuary was the brief closing work of the