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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.

The woman was drunk with the blood of

saints; this was represented by the scarlet

color of the beast upon which she rode. Rome,

as a pagan nation, often shed blood; all the

universal kingdoms came into power by the

shedding of blood; but neither the lion, the

bear, nor the leopard were scarlet colored.

The nation was painted red with the blood of

martyrs when the government submitted

itself to the ecclesiastical power, and the

church made war with the saints. During the

twelve hundred and sixty years of tyranny, the

church claimed that it never took the life of a

single individual. The church merely decided

who were heretics,-so they argue,-and the

state executed the judgment. The beast ridden

by the woman cannot do otherwise than carry