Page 13 - 11 The Voice of a Mighty Angel

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.

of the time prophecy to which the mighty

angel pointed the world; they are a part of the

same two thousand three hundred days which

Daniel sought to understand, but which were

sealed until the time of the end.

A few years previous to 1840, men began the

study of the prophecies of Daniel, and came to

the conclusion that the two thousand three

hundred days of the eighth chapter must end

in 1844. Thinking that the cleansing of the

sanctuary, spoken of in Daniel 8:14, referred

to the cleansing of the earth at the advent of

Christ, the second coming of the Saviour was,

in 1840, and onward, preached with

wonderful power throughout the world. In

America the movement was led by William

Miller, in England, by Edward Irving; in Asia,