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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.

CHAPTER XIX. – BE YE SEPARATE

The vileness of a union of the Christian church

with the state, is depicted in chapter

seventeen. When the church that was once

pure, united with the government of Rome,

and was known as the papacy, God called her

Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, He

showed by the angels who hold the vials of His

wrath, that, as loathsome disease is the

physical penalty paid for the life of a harlot, so

the seven last plagues are the natural results

of the spiritual fornication of which the church

is guilty when the name Babylon is applicable

to her.

This name carries the mind back to the origin

of the expression, in the first century this side