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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.
Jesus loved” to become the connecting link
between heaven and earth. Gabriel, Christ’s
own angel, stood by the side of the last
survivor of the chosen twelve, and opened to
his vision the glories of the future. A nature
less spiritual would have failed to grasp the
picture of eternity; a mind less consecrated
could not have been the channel for such a
flood of divine enlightenment.
In the Midian desert, where none but God was
near, Moses wrote Genesis, the Alpha of all
things. John wrote Revelation-the complete
unfolding of that first book-the Omega-when
alone on an island in the midst of the sea. The
pen of him who wrote the history of creation,
was guided by the same angel who bore to
