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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.

during the journey through the valley of the

shadow of death.

In Eden, God’s word was made known to man

by angels at the tree of life. Upon obedience,

rested the right to eat of the fruit of that tree.

Satan made it appear that obedience to the

commandments was a tyrannical request, and

at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

proclaimed that man should be as gods. The

error of all time,-the hope of eternal life by

some other means than obedience to the

commandments,-is the subject of the

controversy. In Eden, at the beginning, the

commandments and the tree of life were

placed together. Christ in His personal

teaching and in His life, linked them again,

saying, “The words that I speak unto you, they