Page 23 - 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.

the history from the sixteenth century to the

end of time.

The Reformation, in which Luther played such

an important part, was more far reaching in its

results than its most sanguine advocates could

imagine, in the days when the light began to

shine. It was the proclamation of a great truth,

twofold in its mission. As the papacy must be

considered, and had to be met, both as a civil

and as an ecclesiastical power, so the

Reformation gave birth to, or revived, the

principles which were both civil and

ecclesiastical in nature. The fact is stated in

the words of the twelfth chapter, “The earth

helped the woman.” The church was in the

hands of a persecuting power; and when the

dragon sent forth a great flood, hoping to