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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                                Chapter 7 – The Sealing
                   very  emphatic  sense  of  the  144,000.  They


               pass through the great time of trouble such as


               never  was  since  there  was  a  nation.  Daniel


               12:1. They experience the mental anguish of


               the time of Jacob’s trouble. Jeremiah 30:4-7.


               They  stand  without  a  mediator  through  the



               terrific scenes of the seven last plagues, those


               exhibitions of God’s unmingled wrath in the


               earth. Revelation, chapters 15, 16. They pass


               through the severest time of trouble the world


               has ever known, although they are delivered


               out of it.



               2. White Robes. — They wash their robes and


               make them white in the blood of the Lamb. To


               the  last  generation  the  testimony  is  very


               emphatic on the subject of obtaining the white


               raiment.  Revelation  3:5,  18.  And  though  the


               144,000 are accused of rejecting Christ, and
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