Page 6 - 22 The Glories of the New Jerusalem

THE STORY OF THE SEER OF PATMOS

Stephen N. Haskell

“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand” Revelation 22:10.

elements of its own destruction, pent up,

awaiting the command of Jehovah, to perform

their appointed work. At the end of the

thousand years, fire will destroy the earth

together with the wicked. “And I saw a new

heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven

and the first earth were passed away; and

there was no more sea.” Through the open

heavens, Christ and the saints beheld the

“New Jerusalem, coming down from God out

of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her

husband.” Jerusalem is a name interwoven

with all the history of the chosen people from

the days of the establishment of the nation in

the land of Palestine. The name means

“possession of peace;” and when the heathen

were driven from its strongholds, and it