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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.

Earth.” This is the mystery of iniquity, which

Paul said was at work in the days when he

wrote to the Thessalonians.

The apostolic church is represented as a

chaste virgin clad in white linen. The history

of the seven churches of the second and third

chapters of Revelation, describes the decline.

The first love was lost, and that made it easy

to commit fornication. The church tolerated

those who held false doctrines, and certain

sects of philosophers who applied the reason

of the Greeks to the study of God’s Word. The

simplicity of early days was changed for

worldly habits, teachings, and ways of living.

The inward change may be read in the

outward manifestations in the churches of

Pergamos and Thyatira. Paganism walked

bodily into the church, and the leader of