Page 28 - 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.

marches. Constantinople was sorely pressed,

and were not the hand of God recognized, the

fact that the downfall was delayed for another

fifty years might seem a mere accident. Called

to contend with a Scythian force from the East,

the Turks were obliged to postpone activities

in Greece for a number of years. The Byzantine

court, instead of profiting by the imminent

danger, grew weaker. The one hundred and

fifty years of torment, not destruction, was

about to close. “One woe is past; and, behold,

there come two woes more hereafter.” The

restraining hand of God had held contending

forces in check, waiting, waiting, until the

extreme limit of time, for men to acknowledge

the righteousness of Jehovah. But at the

sounding of the sixth trumpet a voice was