Page 7 - 03b The Seven Churhces-Smyrna

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.

Students from this school of Tyrannus became

earnest workers in Asia Minor, and through

them the Gospel was made known. Not only

was the learning of the Greeks, who were the

intellectual lights of the world, opposed by

Paul and his disciples, but the trades were

affected; so much so that there was an

uprising of the people, who with one voice

cried, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” Diana,

the patron goddess of Ephesus, was a

personification of fecundity. In this city,

Christianity-the power of God unto salvation-

came in open and bitter conflict with the false

religion and the false education of the world.

He who walked among the churches, watched

the lighting of the torch of truth in Ephesus,

and so the first words addressed to the church