Page 23 - 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.

soldiers were provided from the days of

Mohammed.

Enough has been said to show the vividness of

the prophetic description of the charge of the

Arab cavalry, who were armed with scimiters,

protected by cuirasses, and seated on horses

swift as the wind.

“They had a king over them, which is the angel

of the bottomless pit, whose name is

...Destroyer.” This character might in truth be

imputed to the Arab caliphs, who directed the

armies for so many years after the death of

Mohammed; but it is especially applicable to

Othman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire.

This, the first attempted centralization of

government was the outgrowth of the