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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.

observed and recorded.” (Devens, in “Our

First Century.”)

Amos witnesses to the fact that the night

following the darkening of the sun, would be

dark also. That is to say, that the darkening of

the sun and moon, to which the sixth seal has

reference, would be within the same twenty-

four hours; one day would be dark, and the

night following, the moon would be dark also.

The paragraph quoted above shows that the

darkening of the sun and moon on May 19,

1780, met these specifications.

The prophet Isaiah gives one point to which

none of the other writers refer. He says, “The

sun shall be darkened in his going forth,” that

is, in the morning. Amos 8:9 states that the