Seven churches

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M. M. NINAN
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Isa 2:12-17 The LORD Almighty has a day .......... the LORD alone will be exalted in that
day,
Isa 13:9 See, the day of the LORD is coming --a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger--
Jer 46:10 But that day belongs to the Lord, the LORD Almighty--
This Lord’s day is referred to in Jer. 46.10, Ez 7.19, Joel 1.15-2.31 etc
Thus we have the clear picture now. On a Sunday John was in a trance and the Spirit of
the Lord came upon him in a mighty way. He was transported in time and space to the
end of the gentiles into the Lord’s Day, where he heard a sound behind him. He turns
back into time and sees the vision - the history of the church period spread before him
starting from the Apostolic Age to the end of the Ages.
This experience of being transported in space and time was experienced by prophets
through the ages. Thus Ezekiel was transported to the Bank of the Chebar from Palestine
by the Spirit.
Ezek 3:14 The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in
the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me. 15 I came to the exiles
who lived at Tel Abib near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat
among them for seven days--overwhelmed. 16 At the end of seven days the word of the
LORD came to me:
Phillip the evangelist was transported from the desert road to Azotius.
Acts 8:39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip
away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip,
however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns
until he reached Caesarea