Page 9 - 21 The Judgment of the Wicked

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.

preparing for them. The wicked are slain by

the brightness of His coming, and are

scattered over the face of the earth,-a feast for

birds of prey; or are swallowed up in the

mighty earthquakes. The earth, broken and

torn by the reelings to and fro in the seventh

plague, is dark and dismal. It is without

form, and void, and darkness is upon the face

of the deep, as before God spake forth the

creation of light. It is chaos, the bottomless pit,

or the abyss of Rotherham’s translation. “And

I saw a messenger coming down out of the

heavens; having the key of the abyss, and a

great chain over his hand. And he seized the

dragon, the ancient serpent, which is

Adversary and Satan, and bound him for a

thousand years, and hurled him into the abyss,