Page 8 - 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.

insight, recognized in the little One the

Redeemer of men. And Anna, a prophetess, an

aged widow, who lived in the temple, and who

sought God day and night for the fulfillment of

His promise, recognized divinity in the Babe,

and giving thanks, “spake of Him to all them

that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.” This

increased the number who in deed and in

truth were waiting for the Messiah. They,

while the world was in darkness and

unconcern, travailed in birth for the world’s

Redeemer.

The faithful ones, the church of the living God,-

few as their numbers may be, are represented

as the “woman clothed with the sun, and the

moon under her feet, and upon her head a

crown of twelve stars.” It is the closing of one