Page 22 - 07 The Sealing

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
Having now ascertained that the seal of God

is his holy Sabbath, having his name, we are

prepared to proceed with the application. By

the scenes introduced in the verses before us,

namely, the four winds apparently about to

blow, bringing war and trouble upon the land,

and this work restrained till the servants of

God should be sealed, as though a preparatory

work must be done for them to save them

from this trouble, we are reminded of the

houses of the Israelites marked with the blood

of the paschal lamb, and spared as the

destroying angel passed over to slay the first-

born of the Egyptians (Exodus 12); also of the

mark made by the man with a writer’s ink-

horn (Ezekiel 9) upon all those who were to be

spared by the men with the slaughtering

weapons who followed after; and we conclude

that the seal of God, here placed upon his