Page 10 - 12 The Third Woe

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.

heaven; and when character was measured by

the divine rod, eternal life was often given to

those, who according to the balances in the

hands of man, were accounted worthy of

death.

It would seem that the attention of the

prophet was called to the measuring in the

outer court, which the loosened seals had

revealed to him; and he is told to leave out “the

court which is without the temple, and

measure it not; for it is given unto the

Gentiles,” those who know not God; and the

holy city shall they tread under foot forty and

two months. This locates the scene definitely

in what was the Western Empire, for the same

period of time is given by Daniel. In the

seventh chapter of that prophecy, the power