To His Church in Smyrna

When Jesus speaks to His church in Smyrna, He acknowledges the reality and increasing intensity of Christian hardship, poverty, and suffering at the hands of Satan’s scheming and cohorts. Jesus specifically mentions prison time, testing, and 10 days of tribulation. Believers (then/now), however, who are faithful in Him unto death will receive the crown of life. The result: the second death – the Lake of Fire – will not harm them.