Letter To Smyrna - Stand Against the State

When you dig into Smyrna what you'll find is evolution of Statism ideologies. Smyrna was told to resist, and boy did they! Wait until you hear about the story of Polycarp. It is a story that harkens back to epic Old Testament classics.  This is one of the shortest letters to the churches that has deep ideological repercussions even up to the present day and even into the later chapters of Revelation.  Notes for the Letter to the Church of Smyrna