6. III. IN EACH CHURCH THE FOUR CHANGES OF STATE HAVE BEEN CONSECUTIVE; THE FIRST OF WHICH HAS BEEN THE APPEARING OF THE LORD JEHOVIH AND REDEMPTION; AND THEN WAS ITS MORNING, OR RISE: THE SECOND HAS BEEN ITS INSTRUCTION; AND THEN WAS ITS DAY, OR PROGRESSION: THE THIRD HAS BEEN ITS DECLINE; AND THEN WAS ITS EVENING, OR VASTATION: THE FOURTH HAS BEEN ITS END; AND THEN WAS ITS NIGHT, OR CONSUMMATION. That there have been in each Church four successive states, which in the Word are understood by "Morning," "Day," "Evening," and "Night," has been shown in the immediately preceding article. That every one of the four Churches above-mentioned underwent those states, will be fully established in the following pages, where each will be dealt with in its turn; also, that the appearing of the Lord Jehovih and redemption was its "Morning"; that instruction was its "Day" or progression into light; also, that decline was its "Evening" or vastation; and that its end was its "Night" or consummation. In the Word, both in its historical and its prophetical portions, those four changes of state are everywhere treated of.