Page 33 - 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.

settling over the East, streaks of light heralded

a coming dawn in the nations of Europe.

The characteristics, given by the prophet in

describing the Turkish forces under the

second woe, are similar to the description of

the cavalry who fought for Mohammed under

the first woe. The breastplate of iron and the

scimiter of the Saracens, had been replaced by

the firearms of the Turks, but the fury of the

charge in the fifteenth century had lost none

of the terrors of those earlier horsemen. Fire,

smoke, and brimstone issued from the mouths

of these warriors. The discharge of the

firearms, as seen by the prophet in vision,

appeared like fire issuing from the mouths of

the horses. The power was also in their tail.

Isaiah says, “The ancient and honorable, he is