Page 26 - 15 The Three Angels' Messages

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.

Babylon, the universal kingdom which offered

the worship of idols for the worship of

Jehovah, is used by the Spirit to symbolize the

churches, which, like the Jewish nation in the

days of Christ, mix the philosophy of the world

with the truth of God, and offer this wine to

men in place of the everlasting Gospel. The

church which does this, realizes its inability to

reach the souls of men, and unites with the

state and attempts to compel the conscience.

There is a form of godliness, but no power

therein. This is the papacy renewed, the

making of an image to the beast. “Babylon is

fallen, is fallen,” said the angel. His message

began in 1844, and will continue until there is

no longer time in which to withdraw from the

fated city. The message “is fallen, is fallen,” is