What name is given to the third state of the church?
Answer
"To the angel of the church in Pergamos write." Verse 12.
NOTE - The meaning of Pergamos is height, or elevation, and fitly represents that period of the
Christian church, beginning with the reign of the Emperor Constantine in AD. 313, when the power which
had put the Christians to death espoused the cause of the church, and by rewards, edicts, and promised
promotions to office in the government, sought to induce the people to become Christians, thus bringing a
flood of worldliness and corruption into the church. Many of the heathen rites and ceremonies previously
introduced into the Christian religion, including the heathen festival, Sunday (sun's day), were then
established by law, the result being that the first day of the week took the place of the Sabbath of the Bible.
What was God's object in making the earth?
How is faith brought to perfection?
What does the imputed righteousness of Christ enable God to do, and still be just?
Had the Lord spoken regarding the Sabbath previous to this time?
Why did God command Israel to hallow the Sabbath?
In what language had some of the Old Testament prophets already foretold these signs?
Do they take any part in earthly things?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle