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.
How did the father show his joy at his son's return?
To another whose sight He had restored, what did Christ say?
What event is closely associated with the establishment of God's everlasting kingdom?
By what is the knowledge of sin?
Over what do the people of God finally gain the victory?
By what authority was Sunday Sabbath-keeping instituted?
What Christian grace are we exhorted to exercise in our expectant longing for this event?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle