Page 19 - 07 The Sealing

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
brought into a new and more intimate

relation to God through his Son, and they are

now called “Jews inwardly,” and “Israelites

indeed.” And now the declaration applies to all

such; for they have as much occasion to know

the Lord as had his people of old.

Thus the fourth commandment, or the

Sabbath, is taken by the Lord as a sign

between him and his people, or the seal of his

law in both dispensations; the people by that

commandment signifying that they are the

worshipers of the true God, and God, by the

same commandment, making himself known

as their rightful ruler, inasmuch as he is their

Creator.

In harmony with this idea, the significant fact

is to be noticed that whenever the sacred

writers wish to point out the true God in