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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 16 – The Plagues Poured Out
has come upon the stage of action, and is

preparing to do the work assigned him; and

that the formation of the image and the

enforcement of the worship are just in the

future. And unless all these positions can be

overthrown, the seven last plagues must also

be assigned wholly to the future.

But there are other reasons for locating them

in the future and not in the past.

1. Under the fifth plague, men blaspheme God

because of their sores, the same sores, of

course, caused by the outpouring of the first

plague. This shows that these plagues all fall

upon one and the same generation of men,

some being, no doubt, swept off by each one,

yet some surviving through the terrible scenes

of them all; a fact utterly subversive of the

position that they commenced far in the past,