Page 18 - 09 The Trumpets

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.

Largely because of this pressure, Constantine

divided the empire, in order that there might

be greater strength to resist invasions. The

time came when all the resources which Rome

could muster, were insufficient to repel the

invaders.

In the year 395, the Goths, with their

renowned leader, Alaric, invaded the Eastern

Roman Empire. As they crossed the Danube,

the dividing line between the territory of the

Romans and the wilds of Germany, in the

middle of a winter of uncommon severity,

they came like the hail from the north, and one

of the Roman poets has said, “They rolled their

ponderous wagons over the broad and icy

back of the indignant river.” Alaric was no

mean leader; but bold, artful, and more than a