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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.
understand the history of the work of God in
the earth. God reveals Himself to man in
various ways. “Nature is the mirror of
divinity;” the Word of God is His character in
human language; Christ was that Word lived
in human form, and the body of Christ-the
church-has, in addition to these methods, the
providences, or leadings, of the Spirit. Thus
John “bare record of the Word of God,” as
written and as lived in Christ; and he bare
record also “of the testimony of Jesus Christ,”
“which is the spirit of prophecy,” and he
likewise bare record of the signs which
Gabriel presented to his vision,-the “all things
that he saw.”
A heavenly benediction is pronounced upon
him “that readeth, and they that hear the
