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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
the city of God? yet how many will stand
condemned as idolaters, how many as those
who make lies, and how many more as those
who love them, and love to circulate them
after they are made!
VERSE 16. I Jesus have sent mine angel to
testify unto you these things in the churches. I
am the root and the offspring of David, and the
bright and morning star.
Jesus testifies these things in the churches,
showing that the whole book of Revelation is
given to the seven churches, which is another
incidental proof that the seven churches are
representatives of the church through the
entire gospel dispensation. Christ is the
offspring of David, in that he appeared on
earth in the line of David’s descendants. He is
the root of David, inasmuch as he is the great