Page 9 - 03c The Seven Churhces-Pergamos

THE STORY OF THE SEER OF PATMOS

Stephen N. Haskell

“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand” Revelation 22:10.

The church between 312 and 538 a. d. joined

hands with the civil power. It took of the

wealth of the State, and asked for civil

protection. Then it was that the spiritual sins

of idolatry and fornication were introduced.

Idolatry was the love of money, the world, and

all false worship which took the place of the

worship of Jehovah. It is fornication in the

eyes of God when His people are wedded to

any power save the arm of Omnipotence.

If ancient Israel had remained true to the

teachings of their leader, the temptations of

the Moabites would have fallen on deaf ears.

The same is true of the church to which all this

history is sent as an allegory. The doctrine of

the Nicolaitanes, as described under the

church of Ephesus, was a mingling of the pure