REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Six -The Seed Endures -Continue

 It was also time for this slave to give special attention to the things written in Jesus' messages to the seven congregations, as we see from what is stated therein.  For example, Jesus refers to his coming to judge the congregations, which judgment began in 1918. (Revelation 2:5, 16, 22, 23; 3:3)  He  speaks of protecting the Philadelphia congregation from  "the hour of test, which is to come upon the whole inhabited earth." (Revelation 3:10, 11)  This "hour of test" arrives only with the dawning of the Lord's day in 1914, after which Christians  were tested as to their loyalty to the established Kingdom  of God. - Compare MATTHEW 24:3, 9-13.

For this reason, Jesus' words to the congregations have had their major application since 1914. In this setting the seven congregations picture all the congregations of anointed Christians during the Lord's day.  Moreover, during the past 50 years and more, the anointed Christians pictured  by John have been joined by large numbers of believers whose hope is to live forever in Paradise on earth.  The counsel of the glorified Jesus Christ and the conditions  he found in the seven congregations as a result  of his inspection apply with equal forces to these, since there is only one standard of righteousness and faithfulness for all of Jehovah's servants.  (Exodus12:40; Colossians 3:11)  Thus, Jesus messages the seven congregations in Asia Minor are not mere historical curiosities.  They mean life or death to each one of us. Let us, then, listen carefully to Jesus' words. 

Next time: REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND/Chapter Seven -Rekindle That First Love!

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