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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
the mount (Exodus 25:9, 40); and the
original itself, as the renewed habitation of
redeemed man, will hereafter descend to the
earth. Revelation 21:10.”
To the overcomer, then, is promised a
restoration to more than Adam lost; not to the
overcomers of that state of the church merely,
but to all overcomers of every age; for in the
great rewards of Heaven there are no
restrictions. Reader, strive to be an
overcomer; for he who gains access to the tree
of life in the midst of the paradise of God, shall
die no more.
The time covered by this first church, may be
considered the period from the resurrection
of Christ, to the close of the first century, or to
the death of the last of the apostles.