Page 5 - 07 The Sealing

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 7 – The Sealing
equally with the “holding;” so that they do

not merely let the winds go when they are to

blow, but they cause them to blow; they impel

forward the work of destruction with their

own supernatural energy. But the hurting

process here brought to view does not include

the seven last plagues. That work is given into

the hands of seven special angels; this, into the

hands of four. Or, it may be that when the time

comes for the pouring out of the plagues, the

seven angels who have specific charge of these

judgments, unite with the four whose mission

it is to cause the winds to blow, and all

together bring on that pre-eminent exhibition

of divine vengeance against a generation

which is pre-eminent in guilt.

Four Corners of the Earth. — An expression

denoting the four quarters, or the four points