Page 19 - 02 The Author of the Revelation

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.

He who spoke to John was the One who

commanded, and worlds stood forth in space.

Christ now stood beside John, and the

prophet, looking upon His glory, fell at His feet

as one dead. He had walked with Him and

talked with Him,-with this same man, Christ

Jesus,-when He was on earth. He had asked to

sit by His side in His kingdom. The glory of His

presence now overcame John, but Jesus laid

His right hand on him,-that hand which had so

often rested there before, and in a voice which

John recognized as the same with which the

Master spoke to the stormy waves of Galilee,

He said, “Be not afraid, ‘I am He that liveth and

was dead; and, behold, I am alive

forevermore.’ You saw me in the grave, but I

now have the keys of hell and of death.” And

so the message which John was commanded