Page 18 - 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.

brought about by severing the connection

between the church and the two witnesses.

When the connection was broken the

restraining power of God was withdrawn; and

as in the natural world, so in the spiritual,

there was nothing to prevent bloodshed,

famine, and persecution. The time of great

persecution was the period during which the

witnesses prophesied covered with sackcloth.

The Reformation removed the sackcloth from

the two witnesses. From the close of the

fourteenth century, when Wycliffe’s

translation placed the Word of God in the

hands of the common people of England, until

the full dawn of the Reformation, the restraint

which had long been placed upon the

Scriptures was gradually removed. The light