as given to the saints of the Most
High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom" (Dan. vii.
20).

Many interpret "the Ancient of Days" and the "one like the Son of Man" to
be Christ. They stagger not at the fact that there are two persons, and
that they are introduced one to another, and that the Ancient of Days
seems to be the greatest. It is nothing to such interpreters that there
are two persons; these they make one. The one looking like the Son of
Man they make out to be the Son of God, although Daniel says he only
looked like Him. The judgment spoken of by Daniel they make out to be
the general judgment, when, in fact, Daniel tells on what and where they
sat in judgment--namely, at Jerusalem. About Anti-Christ--and that
Anti-Christ is soon destroyed after this--and "as concerning the rest of
the beasts (that is, the seven horns), they had their dominion taken
away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time." The
vision and scene of the whole chapter belongs to this world, and the
kingdom of the saints here spoken of is as much material and political as
the other. The difference is, the rulers and people are Christians, they
are called saints.

Every throne should be double-kinged; that is God's purpose, that is
Heaven's plan. Christ wants no earthly throne excepting that way. As
the Creator is Lord of lords and King of kings, so Christ after His
resurrection assumed His Father's place, and stands to us as God to the
Jews of old. All power was given to Him in heaven and in earth,
therefore, He, Christ, has long since begun His reign, and He must
continue to reign until He hath put all enemies under His feet. When
David was king over Israel and Judah, so was God. We repeat, every
throne should be double-kinged.

To this end will come these two witnesses. Who will they be? We answer,
Moses and Elijah: these are the two brave old men now living and waiting
to fulfil their mission. For hundreds of years they have been anointed.
Moses is "the Ancient of Days;" the "one like the Son of Man" is Elijah
the Tishbite. This interpretation chimes in with the Divine Word,
without twisting and distorting to make both ends meet.

We said these two were to be human: so they are. They being sent from
heaven, we said they must have passed by death with their bodies; so they
did. They were to be prophets; so they are, two of the grandest prophets
of all. They were to have power over