Page 4 - 07 The Sealing

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
and stars; for these signs have been fulfilled,

and such a work has not yet been

accomplished. It comes in, therefore, between

the 13th and 14th verses of Revelation 6; but

there, as already shown, is just where we now

stand. Hence the first part of Revelation 7

relates to a work the accomplishment of

which may be looked for at the present time.

Four Angel’s. — Angels are ever-present

agents in the affairs of the earth; and why may

not these be four of those heavenly beings into

whose hands God has committed the work

here described; namely, holding the winds

while it is God’s purpose that they should not

blow, and hurting the earth with them when

the time comes that they should be loosed?

For it will be noticed (verse 3) that the

“hurting” is a work committed to their hands