Page 8 - 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 prophet on Patmos was given a threefold

view of events which would take place

between the time in which he lived, and the

time when the redeemed gather about the

throne. The messages to the seven churches

are ecclesiastical history, showing the spread

of the religion of Jesus Christ, and the errors

which crept in. The seven seals reveal the

inner workings of the church,-the individual

experience-and foretell the signs of Christ’s

coming. In the messages to the churches,

Christ was seen as the Light walking in their

midst: in the seals, He is the Lamb who was

slain that man might live. Another phase of

history, not wholly national, but having to do

with nations, is revealed in the sounding of the

trumpets. The sounding of the seven trumpets