Page 3 - 04a The Seven Churhces-Sardis

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 message to Thyatira. They were the ones

who knew not the works of Jezebel.

These became the forerunners of

Protestantism. The darkness was first broken

when Wycliffe, “the morning star of the

Reformation,” translated the Bible into the

English language. The first streaks of dawn

lighted up the sky, and in the course of two

hundred years, the sun had arisen in its

splendor. The church came out of the

wilderness, leaning on the arm of her Beloved.

The twelve hundred and sixty years of

darkness ended. It was like the return of

spring after a severe winter. Life of every kind

sprang into existence. Energy, long dormant,

seemed suddenly imbued with a hitherto

unknown activity. Discovery followed