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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.
where he can speak goodly words, and spring
hastily to give a helping hand, that the
representatives of Issachar, bowed down
under their heavy burdens, would never see,
neither does God expect it of them. All are
needed to make the number complete. Let not
the burden bearer think, that because he bears
the heavy burdens he is the most important.
He is only one twelfth part of the whole. One
company will represent Levi, whose life
seemed a failure through sin; and yet through
victory in God, the Levites became teachers in
Israel. And of unstable Reuben it is said, “Let
Reuben live, and not die.” He became the
“excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
power.” Judah represents the leaders, those
before whom the others bow down. Every
