What title was given to the fourth state of the church?
Answer
"Unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write." Verse 18.
NOTE - Thyatira means song of labor, or sacrifice of contrition, and points out the condition of
God's people during the long, dark period of 126o years, beginning with the establishment of papal
supremacy in AD. 538, and closing with the downfall of that power in 1798. See notes on page 27, Vol. IL
During that time, millions of the saints of God were put to death in the most cruel manner that wicked men
and demons could invent. Christ referred to this time in His wonderful prophecy recorded in Matthew 24,
in these words: "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this
time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should he shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but
for the elect's sake those days shall he shortened." The tribulation of the 1260 years was cut short through
the influence of the Reformation.
13. In this same prophecy, how is the Church of Rome, the Papacy, designated as the antitype of ancient Babylon?
What relation does the Church of Rome sustain to other apostate churches?
In His first recorded discourse, what did Christ say of the law?
How was the flood stayed, and Satan's -design defeated?
To whom do those things which are revealed belong?
What announcement is made under the seventh plague?
How will the righteous ever afterward appear?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle