Page 27 - 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.

chapter of Revelation were desecrated by the

religion of Mohammed. So near was the

Turkish rule to the throne that in 1346

Orchan, the successor of Othman, demanded

and obtained, as a wife, the daughter of the

Greek emperor, and the princess left her home

in Constantinople to live in the harem of the

Turk. Between 1360 and 1389, the third

sovereign of the Turks, conquered, Thrace,

and fixed the capital of his empire and his

religion at Adrianople, almost within the

shadow of Constantinople. Never before had

the Greek Empire been surrounded on all

sides by the foe. The fourth king, Bajazet by

name, was surnamed Ilderim, or “the

lightning,” because of the fiery energy of his

soul, and the rapidity of his destructive