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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.
the man child.” The papacy was established at
Rome in 538 a. d. for twelve hundred and sixty
years,-the “thousand two hundred and three
score days” of Revelation 12:6, the “time, and
times, and half a time” of Revelation 12:14. It
was the period during which the “two
witnesses” of the eleventh chapter of
Revelation prophesied in sackcloth. It is the
period called the Dark Ages. Hidden from sight
in mountain fastnesses, and obscure corners
of the earth, some secretly, through the long
night, held fast to the Word of God. From the
mouth of the “dragon” was cast out a flood of
iniquity, of false doctrines, of false teachings,
of persecutions, in the hope of forever
drowning the truth. In the East, this flood was
“smoke” from the “bottomless pit” in the form
