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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.

Governments are ordained of God, and rulers

are His ministers to execute wrath upon evil

doers, and to minister good to those who do

right. As long as sin exists on earth there will

be governments, but their province is to deal

with acts, not thoughts and motives. To the

evil doer only, they are divinely appointed a

terror. In all pagan nations the religion is

under the government, and the gods are

worshiped because the government so

ordains. This was true in all the heathen

kingdoms, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome,

until after the birth of Christ. So in each of

these monarchies, the devil sought to destroy

the truth, and those who adhered to it. The

history of these nations is but the record of

this attempt. Each government was an

attempt on the part of Satan to rival the