Seven Lessons for Our Day

 We may each draw modern-day lessons from the messages of the seven messengers in the Ephesus to Laodicean periods ( From the book of Revelation) :

1. Put priorities straight. If, for example, knowing whether the thousand years begins with our Lord’s return or with the completion of the church seems more important than telling people what the thousand years will do for them—then one’s priorities are backwards.

2. If someone threatens you with eternal torture because you cannot conscientiously agree with him, take it patiently.

3. Do not profess “None of self, and all of Thee” when you really want “Some of self, and some of Thee.”

4. Do not insist others do it your way. Do not feel challenged when they don’t. It is better to lose a would-have-been battle, than to rule with an iron fist and lose your Christian life.

5. First, harmonize all Scriptures on a subject, then say, “This is truth.” The just shall live by faith.

6. Desire and try to do your part, and help others do their part, in presenting this gospel of the kingdom in all the world. Sactification. 

7. It is vital to see one’s own shortcomings to see the need of Christ’s merit. Salvation depends upon one’s relationship to Christ, not upon an acceptability to even the best man-made institution.  Back to the Word.

Below are the respective church age messengers:-

1st Church Age  Ephesus ( AD 52 - 170) ~ Apostle Paul ;

2nd Church Age  Smyrna ( AD 170 - 312) ~ Irenaeus ;

3rd Church Age  Pergamos ( AD  312 - 606) ~ Saint Martin ;

4th Church Age Thyatira ( AD 606 - 1520) ~ Columba;

5th Church Age Sardis ( AD 1520 - 1750) ~ Martin Luther (ex-monk) ;

6th Church Age Philadelphia ( AD 1750 - 1906) John Wesley;

7th Church Age Laodicea ( AD 1906 'till the translation of the Bride members ) William Marrion Branham.