Page 42 - 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 end is given only by the divine

recorder.

The history of the beast is given again and

again, that God’s people may know what to

expect of the image to the beast. As the beast

bore sway over the known world in its day, so

the image will set the example to the world in

the end of time. America once took the lead in

propagating the principles of religious and

civil freedom; to-day that nation leads the

world in its strife for power and recognition,

and the very principles of its own Declaration

of Independence are overridden in dealing

with subject provinces. Rome has been

portrayed from all sides, and so definitely

described that it cannot be mistaken. When

the image is compared with the real, in the