What name is given to the second state of the church?
Answer
"Unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write!' Verse 8.
NOTE - The meaning of Smyrna is myrrh, or sweet-smelling savor, and applies to the period of
time when many of the saints of God suffered martyrdom under pagan Rome.
Into what condition has sin brought the entire creation?
What are the wages of sin?
With what words did the chief priests and others mock Jesus while on the cross?
Who opens the judgment and presides over it?
What kind of teaching have men substituted for the words which are spirit and life?
7. What spirits stand ever ready to deceive and ruin those who are off guard or bent on going astray?
Of what are the streets of the city composed?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle