Smyrna and Philadelphia Churches in the Last Days
Among God's Next moves in these end-times is spotlighting the poor in spirit and the least is the greatest, which are powerful apostolic teachings of Jesus in the Gospel. God is now raising up Smyrna and Philadelphia churches in our midst, and even within churches, like how he built a nation within the nation of Egypt in Moses' time. In our time when anything that is big, peopled and moneyed is worshipped everywhere, God reinstates the meek and lowly to demolish the strong and wise of this world. Photo by Beth Macdonald on Unsplash . In Revelations 2 and 3, Jesus says this of Smyrna church: I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! Of the church in Philadelphia he says: I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. But to the rest of the churches---the active, rich and impressive-looking---Jesus sternly warned to "repent." They were far from being what God wanted them to be and doing what God wanted