Page 10 - 03c The Seven Churhces-Pergamos

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.

teachings of Christ with the philosophy of the

Greeks. If this doctrine had not been accepted

in the church which claimed to be following

the Saviour; if the children and the young

people had been fed on truth instead of the

mixture of good and evil, as represented by

the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, the church

would never have fallen. The message to

Pergamos applies in the fourth and fifth

centuries; it has also been the experience of

each separate Protestant denomination, and it

is a warning to all churches to the end of time.

Any interpretation of this period that does not

correspond with the history of Balaam is not

according to the mind of the Lord, for God has

given Balaam’s history as a test by which we

may know the true interpretation.