<TITLE>03. Par 18-27</TITLE>L-18 Now, we been reviewing these a little bit at nighttime, going back. And the church age, first was the Ephesian church age. Can anybody say right off who the angel or the Light was, minister of that church age? Paul. The Ephesus church age, A.D. 55 to 170. The reason I picked up 55, that's when he started his missionary journey, and it was then when he established the Ephesian church and the--and the different churches along there.
All right, the second church age was the Smyrna. Can anyone remember what the angel of that church age was, any of the class? Irenaeus, is right. All right, it was 170 to 312.
The third church age was the Pergamos church age. Can anybody remember, in the class, who was the saint of that church age? Saint Martin is right. From 312 to 606...
And then the next church age was Thyatira. Can anybody remember the saint and the messenger, angel of that age? Columba, is right. And that's 606 to 515.
The next was Sardis church age, which was last night. And anybody... 'Course, you know what the angel of that church age was. Remember? Martin Luther. And then his was 1520 unto 1750.
And tonight we're on the Philadelphian church age, which is John Wesley, the messenger of that day, from 1750 to 1906 A.D., and it's the age of brotherly love.
Now, we find out that each one of these churches, church ages, expressed the characteristic of that church. It told what the church was and the characters of the church, the characteristic, rather, of the church.

L-25 Now, last night was Martin Luther. I... In these, I am... The reason I'm getting this and the boys are putting it on tape... I'm studying all day long. And you say, "All day long on just what little history you give here?" No. The historical points will go in the book. See? This here, I'm... Reason to get here, is to get these things pulled out by the inspiration from before you people, where we gather together to get the inspirational part of it. The history, I can read that out of the book, but this is where I'm looking for the inspiration; then we pick it up from the tape. Then we got the... We got... In the book then, we'll have both the historical data of it and also the inspiration of the Holy Spirit has give us while we're together here, this heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And I believe it ought to make a striking little commentary on these church ages. And the Lord grant His blessings to it.

L-26 Now, the... Last night, the church age being the Sardis church age, was really in the Greek was called, "the escaped one," but I believe that the English translation is "dead." Now, it was both a dead church and an escaped one, because it was the church that had died under the papal reign in the 1500 there, or 1520, of the--of the great papal reign which we call the dark ages; where Christianity was at the lowest ebb it ever has been or ever will be, even in the Laodicean church age.

L-27 Now, there's one of the striking things though, keep bearing on your mind that these church ages start, and whatever's in that one church age it goes all the way down through every church age, and each one of the church ages lap over one another. If you study the history close with the book, you'll find out.
It's like laps like this, laying over each other. And one church age is going out, and the angel that comes in between there is to call back that church to the faith that it once lost. It's always been.
Look at Jude, the last book in the Bible (See?), till you hit the Revelation there. Jude said, "I wrote unto--wrote unto you that you might earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints." The lapping over, between the apostles and the coming of the Revelation, because most apostles were dead then (See?), was gone on. One living at that time, that was Saint John the Divine, which is the revelator or the writer that got the Revelation from the Angel of the Lord to write the Book of Revelations.


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