Page 9 - 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.

applied in Revelation 1:4, held in the spread of

Christianity, a position corresponding to that

which was occupied by Palestine in the

history of the Jewish nation. When God wished

to make the Hebrew race the leading

government of earth, He chose, for the seat of

that government, a position unrivaled by any

other portion of the globe. Palestine was

the highway between the South and the East

and between the East and the West. When the

power of God passed from this nation to the

Christian Church, Asia Minor became the

center of activity and the base of operation. In

those seacoast towns, and in Ephesus above

all others, Jew and Gentile met on equal

footing. Every nationality,-Parthians, Medes,

Elamites, and dwellers in Mesopotamia,

representing the far North and East, met in