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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

                                 ~The Response of History to the Revelation~

                                                Chapter 7 – The Sealing
                   they which follow the Lamb whithersoever


               he goeth.” Revelation 14:4. Both expressions


               denote  the  state  of  intimate  and  divine


               companionship  to  which  the  blessed


               Redeemer  admits  them  in  reference  to


               himself.




               The  psalmist,  in  the  following  beautiful


               passage, seems to allude to the same promise:


               “They shall be abundantly satisfied with the


               fatness  of  thy  house;  and  thou  shalt  make


               them  drink  of  the  river  of  thy  pleasures.”


               Psalms 36:8. The phraseology of this promise


               to  the  144,000  is  also partially found in the


               following glowing prophecy from the pen of


               Isaiah: “He will swallow up death in victory;


               and the Lord God will wipe away tears from


               off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall
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