Page 29 - 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.

worship of God, and where the mystery of

iniquity was fast coming into power.

But the end was not yet. “The third angel

sounded, and there fell a great star from

heaven, burning as it were a lamp.” For nearly

one hundred years previous to the final

downfall of Rome, the Huns, one of the wildest

of the Scythian tribes, had pressed upon the

empire, spreading themselves from the Volga

to the Danube. For a time they commanded

the alternative of peace or war, with both the

eastern and western divisions of the empire.

In the days of Ætius, a general of the West,

sixty thousand Huns marched to the confines

of Italy; but retreated when paid the sum

which they cared to demand. Theodosius, the

emperor of the East, bought peace by paying