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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.
that I will bring upon her.” Since these things
are repeated in the divine description of the
woman on the scarlet colored beast, it is
evident that every detail preserved in the
record of ancient Babylon and its destruction,
is to be fulfilled a second time in, and for,
modern Babylon, the church that became a
whore. So much for the city whose history is
so vividly portrayed in the Word.
There is another source of information which
shows the repetition of the sins of the city
Babylon, as the church entered the Middle
Ages. The Roman See gained power gradually.
It was at first a simple church the same as all
others, which arose as the result of the
preaching of the early apostles.
Constantinople was for some time a rival of