Page 40 - 10 The Beginning of Woes
P. 40
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.
world, and although the revelation of Jesus
Christ is given in the Word, in nature, and may
be read in the relation of nations to each other,
yet “the rest of the men which were not killed
by these plagues yet repented not of the works
of their hands, that they should not worship
devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass,
and stone, and of wood.... Neither repented
they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,
nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”
As the end draws near iniquity waxes greater.
The fall of nations has ever been used as a
symbol of the final destruction of the earth.
Men see these things and yet continue in their
idolatry, their theft, and their fornication. How
precious in the sight of the Lord is that little
company who by faith see Jesus, and following
