Page 26 - 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.

To show that in 1299 power was given “to

hurt men five months” we have the testimony

of historians. After speaking of the invasion by

Othman of Nicomedia, which was the eastern

frontier of the Greek Empire, Gibbon

continues: “The annals of the twenty-seven

years of his reign would exhibit a repetition of

the same inroads; and his hereditary troops

were multiplied in each campaign by the

accession of captives and volunteers.” The

successors of Othman, the founder of the

Ottoman Empire, each pushed his conquests

nearer to the coveted seat of power. A regular

standing army of twenty-five thousand

Moslems was organized by the son of Othman.

Asia Minor was completely in his hands, and

the seven churches referred to in the first