Continuing on in the awesome book of Revelation. Which means to reveal/uncover/unveil the truth for us here in the end-times. Now to the content of the churches which we want to pay high attention to in what is pleasing to Christ and what He approves of. This is important as well, as churches get planted, then grow. Here you find out what the truth growth mean and how it's honestly accomplished. Thank you for taking a look †
(Revelation 2:1-7) "Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
(7 stars = The 7 angels under His control and power. Important in the fact that they won't betray Christ or us as the fallen angels did who followed satan at satan's rebellion. Here Christ is in the middle of the churches of course. So, you'll see they turn their backs on Him).
2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
(The works and labour = their production for Christ and His Kingdom. They are against evil, their discernment is up and doing well there. So what is the problem? As we will see love because they are not following the right Gospel in the end as Smryna and Philadelphia ARE following the right Gospel. In the next post we will note that more as we cover Smyrna).
3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
(Borne = they are carrying others burdens, they are doing some good things. But is is enough? No).
4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
(Here is the problem. The very first commandment! They are doing it in vain. They are serving self! Living by the flesh obviously putting the world first in idolatry, and not the Holy Spirit.They are not teaching what Smyrna and Philadelphia teach and who is of the synagogue of satan. We will further see the 5 churches Christ does not approve of are ALL in idolatry).
5Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
(What do they have to do here? Reflect upon where they came from in the first place! Back to the cross. Not to be saved again, but take a deep look. Reflect, repent, and reconcile. Christ is saying He can come anytime and remove what holds the light (protecting the candle, allowing it to sit and stand out). He plants the church and He will remove it if you want to mess around and play hokey pokey, and they have certainly turned themselves around, so much so they have it twisted)!
6But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
(The Nicolatians did ball worship. Here is that idolatry. baal worship pretty much worshiped anything under the sun without putting God first. baal began as a weather god on account of agriculture around the time of Abraham. Of course, all sins come after idolatry. Then fertility and the worship comes next. No surprise there as it flourished near the coasts of Cana beginning near Phoenicia. Of course, weather worship in correlation with agriculture come and would come on account of famine. If they got what they wanted they would see it as weather gods approving of them. But by this time of course sex, fornication, orgies took top billing. But it was every evil practice).
(Who else worshiped baal and persecuted God's people, such as Elijah? You got it, Ahab and Jezebel. This is important as we go into the the other churches where jezebel is named and her actions, how she operates, what she is doing with her life).
7He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."
(The ear always first. For good reason as it is what we take in first, the rest of the senses what comes out. Even including touch as it is an outward action from what we handle from taking in. So, very important to "see" this lol. Okay, little joke).
Christ was and is the tree of life going back to the garden of Eden.
satan = not your garden variety. As he was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Where can I read that Pastor Jp besides Genesis 2? God don't do talking trees. God does not do talking serpents. Them are satan's names in his many roles giving us his characteristics.
(Ezekiel 31:8-9) "The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him."
Okaydoke, we'll leave it there. I hope you got a lot out of this study
Smyrna is next. You certainly will not want to miss that.
Amen †
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