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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.
CHAPTER IV. THE MESSAGE TO THE
CHURCHES - Sardis
The message to Sardis is addressed to
Protestantism. The period covered by
Thyatira was the era of papal persecution.
This church was once the church of God, one
of the candlesticks among which the Son of
man was seen to walk, but when that
organization prostituted itself by joining
hands with the state, when, in other words, it
followed the example of Balaam and worked
the works of Jezebel, the oil was withheld from
the candlestick, and given to those who were
willing to obey God in preference to the head
of the church. God regards character, not
name; and the faithful few to whom the light
was entrusted, were mentioned in a part of
