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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.
Signs of the coming of the Son of man were
given in the earth, the sea, and the sky. Those
were unheeded, and in the plagues, terrors
come from those same places.
The fifth vial was poured upon the seat of the
beast. The developments in the last days,
reveal the persecuting spirit of the beast and
his image. All the world wondered after the
beast, and looked to his man-made power in
preference to the God of light and love. Thick
darkness covered all the land of Egypt for
three days, so that men could not leave their
homes. This was a type of the darkness of the
fifth plague. Men scoffed when they heard that
the darkening of the sun in 1780 was a token
of the approaching day of God. Some of these
men will be living, when the sun refuses to
