Page 45 - 02 The Seven Churches

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
from the Searcher of “the reins and hearts”

of all men will be given. And further, the

declaration, “I will give unto every one of you

according to your works,” is proof that the

address to this church looks forward

prophetically to the final reward or

punishment of all accountable beings.

And All the Churches Shall Know, etc. — It has

been argued from this expression that these

churches could not denote seven successive

periods of the gospel age, but must exist

contemporaneously, as otherwise all the

churches could not know that Christ was the

searcher of the reins and hearts from seeing

his judgments upon Jezebel and her children.

But when is it that all the churches are to know

this? — It is when these children are punished

with death. And if this is at the time when the