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 is God's attitude toward the sinner?
What are the evidences that one has been born of God?
How does the Revelator describe this satanic desire to destroy Christ?
11. How is the closing work of the gospel under the outpouring of the Spirit described by the Revelator?
Did Christ have anything to do with creation and the making of the Sabbath?
For what did Christ reprove the Pharisees and Sadducees?
Is there danger of believers losing their hold on Christ?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle