Page 34 - 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.

barbarian on the throne in the place of the

royal family.

“The fourth angel sounded, and the third part

of the sun was smitten, and the third part of

the moon, and the third part of the stars.” The

prophetic history given under the fourth

trumpet, represents the dense darkness that

would exist if the sun, moon, and stars all

refused to emit light. Its fulfillment was the

extinction of the light of Western Rome.

During the last twenty years of the existence

of the Western Empire, nine emperors had

successively disappeared. The third from the

last was murdered, and his successor, Nepos,

was expelled. Orestes was a Pannonian by

birth, and for years a faithful follower of Attila,