Page 35 - 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.

and the masses pay their Peter’s pence to the

moneyed classes as surely as it was ever

exacted in Rome. As the cry of the oppressed

during the Dark Ages reached heaven, so in

this day of apparent light and progress, and of

boasted freedom, the voice of oppression is

heard. “Behold, the hire of the laborers who

have reaped down your fields, which of you is

kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of

them which have reaped are entered into the

ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.”

America, according to prophecy, would

repudiate the fundamental principles of the

nation, and from the lamblike beast, the voice

of the dragon is heard. “And he exerciseth all

the power of the first beast before him, and

causeth the earth and them which dwell