Page 9 - 16 Preparation for the Plagues

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.

For them the time of the plagues, through

which they pass unharmed, is as when Israel

stood between the mountain and the Red Sea,

with an Egyptian army pressing hard after

them. There was no visible way of escape, and

casting themselves on the arm of Jehovah,

they awaited His deliverance. Their

deliverance was a marvel in the eyes of the

nations round about, and all men feared the

God of Israel. The song in which Moses led the

hosts of the delivered, will be repeated when

the one hundred and forty-four thousand

stand on Mount Zion. “I will sing unto the

Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously.... The

Lord is my strength and song, and He is

become my salvation: He is my God, and I will

prepare Him an habitation; my father’s God,