Page 4 - 03 The Seven Churches Continued

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 3 – The Seven Churches (continued)
period! Look at her high-sounding titles, and

her favor with the world. But how have pride

and popularity grown apace, until spirituality

is destroyed, the line of distinction between

the church and the world is obliterated, and

these different popular bodies are churches of

Christ only in name!

This church was to hear the proclamation of

the doctrine of the second advent, as we learn

from verse 3: “If therefore thou shalt not

watch, I will come on thee as a thief.” This

implies that the doctrine of the advent would

he proclaimed, and the duty of watching be

enjoined upon the church. The coming spoken

of is unconditional; the manner only in which

it would come upon them is conditional. Their

not watching would not prevent the coming of

the Lord; but by watching they could avoid