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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.
clearness of the noonday rays. Thousands, in
all quarters of the globe testify to the saving
health in the Sabbath observance.
The number of the servants of our God is now
being made up. “I heard the number of them
which were sealed: and there were sealed an
hundred and forty and four thousand of all the
tribes of the children of Israel.” Character
alone is the basis of the sealing work. The
promise of the new earth was made to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; but the literal
descendants of these patriarchs, failed to
develop a character which would place upon
them a seal of the living God, and they were
rejected as a nation. Then the Gentiles, like
branches from a wild olive tree, were,
contrary to nature, grafted into the Jewish