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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 3 – The Seven Churches (continued)
sensible presence and love of God, so by cold

would seem to be denoted a spiritual

condition characterized by a destitution of

these traits, yet one in which the individual

feels such destitution, and longs to recover his

lost treasures. This state is well expressed by

the language of Job, “O that I knew where I

might find him!” Job 23:3. In this state there is

not indifference, nor is there content; but

there is a sense of coldness, unfitness, and

discomfort, and a groping and seeking after

something better. There is hope of a person in

this condition. What a man feels that he lacks

and wants, he will earnestly strive to obtain.

The most discouraging feature of the

lukewarm is that they are conscious of no lack,

and feel that they have need of nothing. Hence

it is easy to see why our Lord should prefer to

behold his church in a state of comfortless