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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
thus addressing the last generation of

Christians, the Christians of our own day; and

he calls them the twelve tribes scattered

abroad. How can this be? Paul explains in

Romans 11:17-24. In the striking figure of

grafting which he there introduces, the tame

olive tree represents Israel. Some of the

branches, the natural descendants of

Abraham, were broken off because of unbelief

(in Christ). Through faith in Christ the wild

olive scions, the Gentiles, are grafted into the

tame olive stock, and thus the twelve tribes

are perpetuated. And here we find an

explanation of the language of the same

apostle: “They are not all Israel which are of

Israel,” and “he is not a Jew which is one

outwardly, ... but he is a Jew which is one

inwardly.” Romans 9:6-8; 2:28, 29. So we find

on the gates of the New Jerusalem — which is