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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.
Moses watched the flocks of Jethro. Every
other book in the Bible is but the unfolding of
the truths of Genesis. It is the Alpha, and the
book of Revelation is the Omega, of the Word
of God to man.
As God prepared Moses, by a life of forty years
in the solitudes of Midian, so He called the
Apostle John from the society of men, and led
him along a strange path upward, and still
upward, until at last on the rocky coast of
Patmos, heaven was opened to his wondering
gaze, and the future history of the church was
made known.
About six hundred years before the advent of
Christ, there lived another seer, Daniel. To him
God revealed the history of the nations of the
world. From his own day, when Babylon bore
