Page 18 - 14 The Beast from the Sea & The Beast from the Earth

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.

heel upon the serpent’s head, and would have

crushed out all the life, had the plan of

salvation been fully complete. The world

emerged from the darkness gradually. The

light of the Reformation shone forth in the

sixteenth century; the last public execution for

conscience sake was in Seville, Spain, in 1776;

and in 1798, the closing year of the forty and

two months, Pope Pius VI, the representative

of that power which had crowned and

uncrowned kings, which had spoken, and

Europe, almost en masse, had arisen to defend

the holy sepulcher, which had extracted

money from all nations, was captured by the

French army, and died, shortly after, a

prisoner, in fulfillment of the words “He that

leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity.”