Page 24 - 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.

drown the truth, the earth came to the rescue

of the church. The protest of the princes of

Germany at the Diet of Spires, was like a

pebble thrown into a lake; a wave was started,

and the circles widened until man could not

compass them.

John had another and more definite view of

the help given by the earth. Turning from the

sea, from which he had seen the great and

terrible beast arise, with its seven heads and

ten horns and the names of blasphemy, he saw

“another beast coming up out of the earth.” It

was at the time the papal power was being led

into captivity, that the prophet saw this new

power “coming up.” Rome sprang into

existence in the midst of many peoples; the

beast arose from the sea, but away from all the