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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 22 – The Tree and the River of Life
very next verse Christ says, “Behold, I come

quickly.” What dangerous and insane

presumption, then, to claim, as Age-to-come

believers do, that there will be probation even

after that event! Christ’s reward is with him,

to give every man as his work shall be, which

is another conclusive proof that there can be

no probation after that event; for all the living

wicked, those “who know not God,” the

heathen, and those “who obey not the gospel

of the Lord Jesus Christ,” the sinners of

Christian lands (2 Thessalonians 1:8), will be

visited with swift destruction from Him who

then comes in flaming fire to take vengeance

on his foes.

The declaration of verse 11 marks the close of

probation, which is the close of Christ’s work

as mediator. But we are taught by the subject