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 other prediction asserts the same great truth?
In all we do, whose glory should we have in view?
Does proper correction evidence a want of parental love?
What question must every unfaithful parent meet?
Did Christ's followers keep the Sabbath after His death?
When the state enacts religious laws, what is effected?
What is to be their fate?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle