Page 11 - 10 The Beginning of Woes

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.

cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be

able to see the earth: and they shall eat the

residue of that which is escaped, ...and shall

eat every tree which groweth for you out of

the field: and they shall fill thy houses, and the

houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all

the Egyptians.”

The wisdom of Solomon led him to say, “The

locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of

them by bands.” In using this one figure the

divine historian tells the whole story of the

Saracen conquest. There was no king, there

was no organized government; but there was

one common faith which bound the hordes of

Arabia to their caliph. When Mohammed first

advocated his doctrine, he gained adherents

by the power of argument; but this process