REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Eleven - Is Your Name in the Book of Life?

 Some 30 miles south of modern Akhisar (Thyatira) is the site of the next congregation to receive a message  from the glorified Jesus is Sardis.  In the next century before our Common Era, this city was the proud capital  of  the ancient kingdom of Lydia and seat of the enormously wealthy King Croesus.  By John's day, it had fallen on hard times, and its former splendor under Croesus is more history. Similarly, the Christian congregation there has become spiritually impoverished.  For the first time, Jesus does not begin  his message with a word of commendation. Instead, he says: "And to the angel of the congregation in Sardis write: These are the things that he says who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, 'I know your deeds, that you have the name that you are alive, but you are dead.'" - REVELATION 3:1. 

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