CHURCHES IN MATTHEW 13--REVELATIONS 2-3

3. The parallelism between Matthew thirteen and Revelation two and three. While the mystery form of the kingdom is not synonymous with the visible church, yet, since the time period is essentially the same in the two passages, we may reasonably expect that there would be a parallelism of development. The following chart will illustrate this general parallelism.

			Meaning
			of the	Approximate
	Matt, 13 Rev. 2-3		name	dates	Characteristic
					Time of sow
					ing,organization, and
					evan gelism
	Sower	Ephesus	Desired	Pentecost to 100 AD.
	Wheat				Persecution,
	and				Enemy reveal- C~tJ
	Tares	Smyrna	Myrrh	Nero to 300 AD,	ed
					Worldly alliances- 1t
	Mustard		Thoroughly		~.Greatest external
	Seed	Per gam os	Married	300 to 800 AD.	ternal growth
					Papal domination. -
			Continual	800 to	Doctrinal	Sf.
	Leaven	Thyatira	sacrifice	1517	corruption
					Empty profes-	01
					sion . .B~
,	Treasure		Those		the state
	Hid	Sardis	escaping	Reformation chJll:<h ]
				The last	True church of
	Pearl	Brotherly      Philadelphia    love		days	the last days
	Dragnet	Laodicea	People ruling	Last days	Apostasy"

It is not intended to infer that there is an identity in the revela­tion in the two passages, rather, that there is a similarity in the progress of the course of the age as revealed in the two portions.