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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 XI. – THE VOICE OF
A MIGHTY ANGEL
The prophet John watched the sounding of the
sixth trumpet, and saw the woes and terrors
of national strife, and the darkening of the
earth by the smoke from the “bottomless pit.”
He saw men buried beneath the weight of
their own sins, and although the Son of God
was waiting, like the father of the prodigal son,
for the return of the sinful, yet they repented
not of their murders and sorceries, their
fornications and thefts. Justice and mercy are
inseparably mingled in the dealings of God
with man, and great woes call forth from
Jehovah a great overflowing of His love. So
when the world lay in darkness, unmindful of
