Page 23 - 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.

galling was drunk by the disciples in 1844.

“We thought that it was He that would save

Israel,” was echoed eighteen hundred years

later in the words, “We looked for Him to save

us, but He has not come.” In this period of

anguish and disappointment, the churches

that had opened their doors for the message,

now turned away from those who still clung to

the belief in the prophecies and the second

coming of the Lord. This closing of the doors,

and the rejection of further light, caused the

second message of Revelation 14:8 to be

proclaimed.

Many expected that those who passed through

the disappointment, would forever sink out of

sight, but the angel said, “Thou must prophesy

again, before many peoples, and nations, and