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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
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