Page 6 - 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.

of evil was nearly universal. The connecting

link, however, was not wholly severed; else

the earth would have been destroyed, and

neither Rome, with its boasted grandeur, nor

Satan, with all his power, could have saved the

wreck. Ministering at the altar in the temple in

Jerusalem, was Zacharias, the priest. He and

his wife Elizabeth prayed daily for the advent

of the Son of God. Jehovah stopped to listen,

and answered those prayers by giving to the

aged priest and his wife a son, the forerunner

of the Messiah.

In the town of Nazareth, noted for its

wickedness, lived a young woman. Daily her

heart was lifted to God, asking for the advent

of the promised Saviour. Again Jehovah’s ear

was reached, and that prayer was answered.