. THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF REVELATION Rev 2-3 The seven names which represent t seven phases of the gospel church 1st, Ephesus, which means, chief, desirable, and represents the first or apostolic phase of Christianity; 2d, Smyrna, means, a sweet odor, and represents the church in the first persecution under the Roman emperors, before the corruption and falling away of which Paul speaks, began; 3d, Pergamos, means, elevated, and refers to the phase of the church at and after the conversion of Constantine, when the self-exaltation, corruption and falling away began; 4th, Thyatira, means, sacrificed, and refers to that phase of the church when the woman fled into the wilderness, where she was to be fed of God; 5th, Sardis, means, that which remains, and refers to the church just prior to the great reformation of the sixteenth century, at a time when true piety had been almost exterminated; 6th, Philadelphia, means, brotherly love, and refers to the reformation church, from the days of Luther to the beginning of the time of the end, or 1798; 7th, Laodicea, means, judgment, and refers to the church of the time of the end, which includes the sounding of the seventh trumpet, with its advent proclamation, its time of trouble and day of wrath; its reward of prophets, and saints, and those that fear his name, small and great. THIS IS NOW ! THIS IS US! Rev 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
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