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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.

When the apostle had been preaching but

little more than thirty years, he said to the

Colossians that the Gospel had been

“preached to every creature which is under

heaven.” What stronger expression could be

used than “it went forth conquering, and to

conquer.” But it was “not by army, nor by

power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of

Hosts.” This was the soul experience of those

children of the living God when they felt the

warmth of “their first love.”

The Gospel of Christ brings peace on earth, but

when men fail to receive the truth, it brings

sword and bloodshed. The second beast said,

“Come and see.” “And there went out another

horse that was red, and power was given to

him that sat thereon to take peace from the