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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.

spring of 1844. On further investigation, it was

found that the decree of Artaxerxes, from

which the prophetic period is reckoned, went

into effect in the autumn of the year 457 b. c.;

hence, this reckoning would cause those days

to expire in the autumn of 1844 a. d. Here was

a waiting time, in which those who loved the

Lord, prepared, by deep heart searching, to

receive Him. Many inquired, “What must I do

to be saved?” Those who were looking upward

received the light of the investigative

judgment, when, in the autumn of 1844, the

door in heaven opened, and Christ

approached the Father. But many who had

only professed to believe in the advent,

changed when the time passed and He did not

come, and now scoffed at those who still clung