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The lamb is the Lord, Part 2: Lampstands in a Darkened World

Two: Lampstands in a Darkened World
Introduction and Questions

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Introduction

The year is probably around 90-95AD. The mighty Roman Empire is almost at its greatest power and extent. At this moment in history, Almighty God speaks to an old man in exile on a little island in the Mediterranean. That man is John the Apostle. John writes, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, ‘Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea’” (1:10-11).

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