Page 11 - 13 The Great Controversy

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.

never was a time when the interest was more

intense than when the fullness of time was at

hand, and the Son laid aside His God form, and

clothed Himself in human flesh,-flesh subject

to all the weaknesses of the frailest child on

earth. Into the territory of Satan, into the

nation which was the very essence of all

untruth and deceit, the deepest, strongest

compound of error, Christ came as a helpless

child to show the power of truth and love.

“There appeared another wonder in heaven;”

it was the opposing power of Satan embodied

in the ruling monarchy of earth-the empire of

Rome, with Cæsar Augustus at its head. It is

plainly stated in Revelation 12:9 that the great

red dragon is the devil; and the seven heads

with the ten horns represent the Roman