Page 11 - 03b The Seven Churhces-Smyrna

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.

a desperate struggle for existence. It is for

these reasons, that the first message,

addressed to Ephesus, is applicable to the first

era of the Christian religion. Into the darkness

of the worst forms of heathenism, the religion

and culture of the Greeks, backed by the

government of Rome,-Christianity walked as a

spotless virgin clothed in white. By preaching

and by teaching, two methods which are

divinely ordained for the spread of the truth,

Paul and his fellow laborers raised up a church

at Ephesus.

John had known of the work at this place; for

he, as a pillar in the Jerusalem church, was

acquainted with the progress of the light as it

spread from that center, and from Patmos his

heart turned to the believers on the mainland.