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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
the celebration of the rights of idolatry, and

all its licentious accompaniments. The plan

succeeded. The abominations of idolatry

spread through the camp of Israel, the curse of

God was called down upon them by their sins,

and there fell by the plague twenty-four

thousand persons.

The doctrines complained of in the church of

Pergamos were of course similar in their

tendency, leading to spiritual idolatry, and an

unlawful connection between the church and

the world. Out of this spirit was finally

produced the union of the civil and

ecclesiastical powers, which culminated in the

formation of the papacy.

Repent. — By disciplining or expelling those

who hold these pernicious doctrines. Christ

declared that if they did not do this, he would