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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.
vessel. “The noise of the wind, the crackling of
the flames, the dissonant cries of the soldiers
and mariners, who could neither command
nor obey, increased the horror of the
nocturnal tumult.” Many who might have
escaped the flames, met death at the hands of
the Vandal warriors. Historians state that
eleven hundred Roman vessels were
destroyed. The burning mountain had fallen
upon the sea.
Genseric was again recognized as the tyrant of
the sea. He lived to see the final extinction of
the Roman Empire of the West in 476. His was
the work which was permitted to be done at
the sounding of the second trumpet, in that
nation where apostasy replaced the true
