Lord, we thank You that You are training us. We confess that we are still in the natural life. Our understanding of the Bible are very natural. Lord, deliver us from being natural.
To the messenger of the church in Ephesus write: These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, He who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:
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The seven epistles in chs. 2 and 3 are the record of the actual situation existing in the seven churches at the time these epistles were written. However, since this book is a book of (signs) with a (prophetic) nature, the situations of the seven churches also are signs, signifying prophetically the progress of the church in seven stages. The first epistle, to the church in (Ephesus), provides a picture of the end of the initial church, the church in the first stage, during the latter part of the first century. The second epistle, to the church in (Smyrna), prefigures the (suffering) church under the persecution of the Roman Empire.(See Rev. 2:1 note 1)
Tomorrow: Be Faithful unto Death, and I Will Give You the Crown of Life
