The Bible Year by Uriah Smith

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 24, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 42.

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The Bible Year

By Uriah Smith

Assignment for August 27 to September 2

August 27: Ezekiel 41 to 43.

August 28: Ezekiel 44 to 46.

August 29: Ezekiel 47, 48.

August 30: Daniel 1 to 3.

August 31: Daniel 4 to 6.

September 1: Daniel 7 to 9.

September 2: Daniel 10 to 12.

To Think about as You Read

August 27: The Lord requires faithfulness in small things.

August 28: God is a God of order.

August 29: Shall I have a place in the heavenly city?

August 30: Standing up for principle.

August 31: The Lord watches over his children.

September 1: How am I bearing the trials that the Lord allows to come to test me?

September 2: The wisdom of soul-winning.

The Prophet Daniel

“Though we have a more minute account of his early life than is recorded of that of any other prophet, yet his birth and lineage are left in complete obscurity, except that he was of the royal line, probably of the house of David, which had at this time become very numerous. He first appears as one of the noble captives of Judah, in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, at the commencement of the seventy years’ captivity, B. C. 606. Jeremiah and Habakkuk were yet uttering their prophecies. Ezekiel commenced soon after, and a little later, Obadiah; but both these finished their work years before the close of the long and brilliant career of Daniel. . . .”

“He is supposed to have died at Shushan, or Susa, in Persia, about the year B. C. 530, aged nearly ninety-four years, his age being the probable reason why he returned not to Judea with other Hebrew captives, under the proclamation of Cyrus.”

“His life affords a most impressive lesson of the importance and advantage of maintaining from earliest youth strict integrity toward God, and furnishes a notable instance of a man’s maintaining eminent piety and faithfully discharging all the duties that pertain to the service of God, while at the same time engaging in the most stirring activities, and bearing the weightiest cares and responsibilities that can devolve upon men in this earthly life.”—U. Smith.

The Book of Daniel

“It seems futile to attempt, in human language, adequately to extol the merits of this portion of divine revelation. This is the book upon which were based the calculations that showed that a great crisis was to take place in the great advent movement of over half a century ago. It is the ‘little book’ spoken of in

the tenth chapter of Revelation, which the angel held in his hand, open, and tantalizing, from which he made the proclamation that time should be no longer; the book whose contents were first so sweet and then so bitter, illustrating the experience of the church at the time when its hopes of the soon coming of the Lord were not realized.”—Starr.

“His prophecy is, in many respects, the most remarkable of any in the Sacred Record. It is the most comprehensive. It was the first prophecy giving a consecutive history of the world from that time to the end. It located the most of its predictions within well-defined prophetic periods, though reaching many centuries into the future. It gave the first definite chronological prophecy of the coming of the Messiah. It marked the time of this event so definitely that the Jews forbid any attempt to interpret its numbers, since that prophecy shows them to be without excuse in rejecting Christ.”—U. Smith.