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 place has the will in determining whether man shall have life?
How then do all become children of God?
What blessed assurance is given all believers in Christ?
Did Jesus ever make use of ordinary means in performing His miracles?
What is the last book of the Bible called?
Why does the Lord call the Sabbath His day?
Why, after the fall, was man shut away from the tree of life?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle