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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.

Upon the north side of the holy place stood the

golden table, bearing its twelve loaves of

bread. This bread was called “bread of the

presence.” Exodus 25:30. (Young’s Trans.)

Christ is the “living bread,” who ever liveth to

make intercession for His people. As the bread

was ever before the Lord, so Christ ever liveth

in the presence of the Father, as the

representative of fallen man. The twelve

loaves into which the bread was divided,

represented the twelve tribes of ancient

Israel, and also the twelve thousand of each of

the twelve tribes which form the one hundred

and forty-four thousand, who follow the Lamb

wheresoever He goeth. God gave a strict

command that bread used on the Sabbath

should be baked on the sixth day, that there be