Page 2 - 03d The Seven Churhces-Thyatira

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.

CHAPTER III. THE MESSAGE TO THE

CHURCHES - Thyatire

The message to Pergamos carries

ecclesiastical history to the year 538 a. d., at

which time the union between civil and

ecclesiastical power, begun in the days of

Constantine, was consummated. During the

period covered by Pergamos, the Spirit

of the Lord was with the church as a church;

but near the end of that period, a separation

began to take place. In the years following,

there was formed an organization still

carrying the name of Christian; and another

company, separating from that first

organization, because of the practices of

Balaam,-the idolatry and fornication practiced

by those who were once Christians indeed.