Page 13 - 17 The Seven Last Plagues

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.

water, and they become blood. Since the days

of creation, Margin

God has, by the flowing streams and the wells

of water, typified salvation, which is full and

free. As a teacher on earth, Christ used the

waters of Jacob’s well, to illustrate the life of

the Spirit, which wells up into everlasting life.

The smitten rock in the wilderness, from

which flowed the water for the thirsty millions

in Israel’s camp, was God’s voice saying,

“Come unto Me and drink.” In the sanctuary

service, on that last great day of the feast, the

silver trumpets called the people together in

the early morning; and the priests, bearing

flagons of water from the brook Kedron,

ascended the steps of the temple singing, “Our

feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.”