Page 18 - 07 The Sealing

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
Should it be said that this principle can have

no application to Christians at the present

time, as the Sabbath was a sign between God

and the Jews only, it would be sufficient to

reply that the terms Jew and Israel, in a true

Scriptural sense, are not confined to the literal

seed of Abraham. Abraham was chosen at

first, because he was the friend of God, while

his fathers were idolaters; and his seed were

chosen to be God’s people, the guardians of his

law and the depositaries of his truth, because

all others had apostatized from him; and it is

true that these words respecting the Sabbath

were spoken to them while they enjoyed the

honor of being thus set apart from all others.

But when the middle wall of partition was

broken down, and the Gentiles were called in

to be partakers of the blessings of Abraham,

all God’s people, both Jews and Gentiles, were