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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
works unto the end, to him will I give power

over the nations: 27. And he shall rule them

with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter

shall they be broken to shivers: even as I

received of my Father. 28. And I will give him

the morning star. 29. He that hath an ear, let

him hear what the Spirit saith unto the

churches.

If the period covered by the Pergamos church

has been correctly located, terminating with

the setting up of the papacy, A. D. 538, the

most natural division to be assigned to the

church of Thyatira would be the time of the

continuance of this blasphemous power,

through the 1260 years of its supremacy, or

from A. D. 538 to A. D. 1798.

Thyatira signifies “sweet savor of labor,” or

“sacrifice of contrition.” This would well