Page 7 - 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.

words of this prophecy,” and upon those who

“keep those things which are written therein.”

It must needs be that the things written by

John can be understood, else why the blessing

that is here pronounced? Since the book is a

revelation of Jesus Christ to the servants of the

Most High, all who are His servants will study

and understand the prophecy. Every doctrine

necessary for salvation was given in the

revelation of Christ, and the book becomes a

compendium of the whole Bible. The blessing

pronounced upon the servants to whom it is

sent, is an eternal blessing: “For thou blessest,

O Lord, and it shall be blessed forever.”

John, while on the island, away from the work

with which he had been so long and so

intimately associated, away from friends and