Page 22 - 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.

“The second angel sounded, and as it were a

great mountain burning with fire was cast into

the sea: and the third part of the sea became

blood.” The power here brought to view is

distinguished from the Goths by the fact that

its force was felt upon the sea instead of on the

land. While Honorius, who had experienced

the invasion of the Goths, was still nominally

the emperor of Rome, the Vandals were

making their presence felt in Spain. They were

a horde of barbarians who had come from the

northeast and for a time halted in the western

provinces of Rome. In 428 the terrible

Genseric became their leader, and at once the

Vandals assumed the aggressive. Of Genseric

it is said, “His slow and cautious speech

seldom declared the deep purposes of his