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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.
men, thinking that time was about to close,
prepared to meet their God. But the seventh
angel had not yet sounded. He was held in
heaven for a little space, that men might be
prepared for the events about to come in
connection with the completion of the earth’s
history. “The second woe is past; and behold,
the third woe cometh quickly.” The little
period between 1840 and 1844, during which
the message of Revelation 10:1-11 was
delivered, was the time between the close of
the sixth trumpet and the sounding of the
seventh. In the tenth chapter of Revelation
John was told that “in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel, when he shall begin to
sound, the mystery of God should be finished.”
When the seventh angel “begins to sound,” in
