Page 18 - 16 The Plague Poured Out

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 16 – The Plagues Poured Out
portion of mankind? When did the sea

become as the blood of a dead man, and every

living soul die in it? When did the fountains

and rivers become blood, and people have

blood to drink? When did the sun so scorch

men with fire as to extort from them curses

and blasphemy? And when did the subjects of

the beast gnaw their tongues for pain, and at

the same time blaspheme God on account of

their sores? Interpreters who thus put such

scenes in the past, where a shadow of

fulfillment cannot be shown, openly invite the

scoffs and ridicule of the skeptically minded

against God’s holy book, and furnish them

with potent weapons for their deplorable

work. In these plagues, says Inspiration, is

filled up the wrath of God; but if they can be

fulfilled and nobody know it, who shall

henceforth consider his wrath so terrible a