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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.
as of a trumpet, and Christ, his own Christ,
stood by his side. “I am the first, but I am also
the last. ‘I am Alpha and Omega.’ Write what
thou seest in a book and send it unto the seven
churches which are in Asia.”
He spoke in trumpet tones, like the clearest
music, and the voice was as the sound of many
waters; but still, to John He was the same Jesus
whom he had known in Galilee and in
Jerusalem. Not now despised, mocked, and
rejected, but standing in the midst of the seven
candlesticks,-the churches, their light being
the reflection of His own. He was clothed, not
in the cast-off purple robe, but in a garment of
righteousness of dazzling whiteness, and girt
about the loins with the golden girdle of truth.
The purity of God Himself encircled His brow
