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"Commentary on the
Epistles to the Seven Churches in the Apocalypse Part II"
Author: "Fidus" Page 510,513,514
1. The Ephesian church
carries us down to the commencement of the great persecution by Nero,
in A.D. 64.
2. That of Smyrna represents
the church purified by trial at the hands of Rome, till the accession
of Constantine, in 324.
3. The church at Pergamos
sets forth the interval between the elevation of Constantine and the
rise of the little horn, at the commencement of the 1260 years.
4. The church at Thyatira
expresses the testimony of the church against the Papacy during the
1260 years.
5. That of Sardis indicates
the state of the church from the end of the 1260 years, until the
preparation for the coming of the Lord.
6. The Philadelphian church
expresses the period of that preparation, until the Lord come to the
air, and be met by his saints changed and risen.
7. The Laodicean church (the
only one yet entirely future) is our sad monitor concerning the
history of the church on earth during that period of great
tribulation which shall intervene between the coming of the Lord to
the air and the establishment of his throne and rest in Zion.”..."
[p.
510]
"Philadelphia expresses
brotherly love, whether between those who had or between those who
had not been previously brethren. Accordingly, it represents that
era, so often spoken of throughout the epistles, when they that look
for the Lord shall, in the midst of the strife and selfishness of the
last days, be knit together, by their common faith and hope, in the
bonds of his mystical body, in the unity of the Holy Ghost;... And
what is very remarkable, [Philadelphia] now bears the name Allah
Shehr, The City of God. Now its antitype is the church in that period
which succeeds the great earthquake of the French Revolution (Rev.
xi. 13); which is characterized by the earnest yet patient
expectation of the Lord; which receives the answer of its faith in
being caught up to meet him; which is thus kept from the hour of
temptation; and which so becomes, not Laodecea chastised in love, but
the victorious ministerer of great tribulation (Rev. ii.24,26;
iii.10; Luke xxi.36; Heb. xi.5)."
[p.
513,514].
Original issues of The Morning Watch can be found in British libraries, and Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Oral Roberts University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
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