Page 2 - 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.

CHAPTER XVII. – THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES

The inner veil of the earthly sanctuary was

rent in twain when Christ on Calvary uttered

the words, “It is finished.” These words

announced to all the waiting universe, that the

service in types and shadows was forever at

an end; for type had met antitype. When Christ

rises from the judgment throne in “the temple

of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven,”

the holy of holies, and cries so that His voice

reaches the utmost bounds of creation, saying,

“It is done,” the Father’s glory fills the temple,

and all other beings are excluded. Men on

earth may continue to plead for forgiveness;

they may still think there is time to make

peace with God; but like the Jews, who did not

see in Christ the antitype of the lambs they had