1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

LECTURE VI.
DANIEL x. 14.
Now I am come make h e understand what shdl bahll tby
people in tbe latter days ; for yet tbe vision is for many &ya.
Tars is the thud time the angel Gabriel came to instruct
Daniel. The first time was when Daniel Id the
vision of the he-goat, Daniel viii. 16. This was 553
years before Christ. The second time he came wan
when Daniel was praying for the deliveme of his
ple from their Babyionish captivity, fifteen years after
the first visit, when he instructed him into the seventy
weeks, and crucifixion of the Messiah. Now he has
come in tile third year of C s the Persian, in Ule .5;U
R. C, 21 years after ~aniecad his vision of the four
beasb, nineteen after the he-goat, and four yeam after
the seventy weeke' instruction.
After informing Daniel his p~irpose, as in oor text,
and making some prcliminay observations concerning
the aision in the remainder of the tenth chnpkr, he begins
his tmchings to Daniel, and through him to ua,
with the first of the 11th chapter. 1st verse, he tella
who he, the heavenly messenger, is-the same who
confirmed Daniel in the seventy weeks. See Daniel
ix. 1,21. And in the second verse he begins with the
fiRh king of Persia, the ve same king who issued tho
decree to Ezra to go up an~build the walls of Jenulem,
which began our seven weeka, Daniel ix. 25;
Ezra mi. 1-14. For tho fint%eraian king wu then on
the throne, Daniel I. 1, which wns the third year of tho