Places
Smyrna in Revelation 2
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This place shows up in Revelation 2:8: ““To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Revelation 2:8
““To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:”
What kids can learn
When you hear smyrna in Revelation, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Revelation 2:8 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Revelation 2:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
“Totheangeloftheassemblyin“Thefirstandthelast,whowasdead,andhascometolifethesethings: