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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 Revelation is ecclesiastical history, and
into it, nations are introduced only when they
affect the growth of the church.
The life of Daniel shows how God can work
through men in high positions: the
preparation of John for his work as a prophet
is the story of the transformation wrought in
the heart of a fisherman by the Spirit of God.
The extremes of society were represented by
these two men The story of each life is the
narration of the events of a life in which love
worked, and is an object lesson of the
development of Christian character.
In the town of Bethsaida, on the west shore of
the Sea of Galilee, lived the fisherman,
Zebedee, with his wife, Salome, and two sons,
James and John. The two young men were
