Saturday, March 20, 2021

Revelation Chapter 2 (R02d1)

        Church in Thyatira 1

Rev 2:18-19  "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, 'These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first."
     Our Lord is the Almighty God who judges the intents of our heart with eyes like a flame of fire. His feet of fine brass are the foundation of justice in judgement. They were commended for their unceasing good works that grew in fervency with time.

Rev 2:20  Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
    Beware of false or self-proclaimed prophets and prophetesses in churches today. Just like Jezebel of old who killed the prophets of God, these wolves in sheepskins will destroy the faith of pastors and church leaders with their destructive heresies and send them to eternal damnation.

Note  no servant of God will go to the heathen temple and eat food offered to idols.

1. Eating food sacrificed to idols
Mat 4:4  But He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.' "
     Since the word of God is the spiritual food for every Christian, then distorted truth, doctrines of demon and heresies are the spiritual food from the devil (food offered to idols). Thus, accepting and practising heresies and destructive doctrines is just like eating food sacrificed to idols.
    In the latter days, many Christian leaders will teach destructive heresies for financial gains, and the destination of these wolves is damnation.
2 Pet 2:1-3  But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
 
2. Commit sexual immorality
Jam 4:4  Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
    Christians are the brides of Christ. When mammon and the world become our first love, we have defiled our union and resigned ourselves to adultery by being carnal, proud, worldly, covetous, selfish and rebellious. 
I John 2:15-16  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

Savage Wolves in Sheepskin
Acts 20:29-30  For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
    Since the garden of Eden, where God allowed Satan to test Adam and Eve, He had allowed the devil to test mankind since.
    He even allowed savage wolves, filled with distorted truth, wrong doctrines and heresies, to wreck havoc and cause division in the churches founded by the Apostle Paul.
    These wolves bring into the church heresies for financial gain because they are carnal, worldly, blind, covetous and faithless.
Titus 1:10-11  For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.