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Where are we going…
where have we been?
• Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 - “I know that,
whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be
put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it,
that men should fear before him. That
which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already
been; and God requireth that which
is past.”
God has a plan and so does the devil.
The God of the Bible is the God of History.The devil does not want you to identify him in
history.History repeats itself.
Don’t remove the ancient landmark.
Application :•Historical
•Devotional (Inspirational)•Doctrinal (Prophetical)
Where are we going…
where have we been?
Where are we going …
where have we been?
- “Growing Out and Growing Up”
- “Bearing and Baring”
- “Right Rave and Left Love”
- “Hype and Hypocrisy”
- “History and His Story” -
“Acts and Actions”
- “Revealed and Revealing”
- “Fully Purposed and
Fully Positioned”
- “Exposed and Exposure”
Ephesus
Where are we going …
where have we been?
- “Blessings and
Cursings”- “Blind and
Seeing”- “Nothing
and Everything” - “Seed and Situation”
- “Cost and Cause”
- “Information
and Informed”
Smyrna
Pagan Rome
Where are we going …
where have we been?
- “Eclipsed and
Entangled”
- “Christianiz
ed and Paganized”
- “Sword Smitten and Against All”
- “Devil and Doctrine”
Pergamos
Ephesus
90-200 A.D.Smyrna200-325 A.D.
Pergamos
325-500 A.D.Thyatira
500-1000 A.D.
Psalms 119:130 – “The entrance of thy words
giveth light; it giveth
understanding unto the simple.”
Where are we going …
where have we been?
- “Odor and
Order”
- “Last and
First”
Thyatira
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
•Correction
•Challenge•Call
Thyatira
• Commission
Thyatira- “Odor of Affliction”
•The name “Thyatira”
(Continual/Sacrifice)
•Commission
•Character
Thyatira
•“Eyes as flames of Fire”•“Feet like Fine
Brass”
•“The Son of God”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
Thyatira
• “Thy Charity”• “Thy Service”
• “Thy Works”
• “Thy Faith”• “Thy Patience”
“I know”…
“Fornicated andFallen”
Where are we going… where
have we been?
Thyatira
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
Thyatira
Thyatira
•“Committing Idolatry”
•“Committing Fornication”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
• Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and
from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep
yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.• Acts 21:25 – “As touching the Gentiles
which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such
thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to
idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.”
• 1st Corinthians 6:18 – “Flee fornication. Every sin that a
man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth
fornication sinneth against his own body.”
• 1st Corinthians 7:2- “Nevertheless, to avoid
fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let
every woman have her own husband”.
• 1st Corinthians 10:8 – “Neither let us
commit fornication, as some of them
committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”
• Colossians 3:5 – “Mortify therefore your members which
are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection,
evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry”
• Ephesians 5:3 – “But fornication, and all
uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh
saints”
• Proverbs 2:16 – “To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her
words”• Proverbs 6:24 – “To keep thee from
the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange
woman.”• Proverbs 7:5 – “That they may keep
thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth
with her words.”
Hebrews 4:12-13 - “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is
there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all
things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we
have to do.”
• Ephesians 2:8-9 – “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest
any man should boast.”
• 2nd Corinthians 5:21 – “For he hath made him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him”.
The Book Of Judges
Ephesians 6:13- “Wherefore take unto
you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in
the evil day, and having done all, to
stand.”
•Revelation 17:9 And here is the
mind which hath wisdom. The seven
heads are seven mountains, on
which the woman sitteth.
Rome sits on seven mountains.
Rome will
be in power
!(Rev. 17)
• Genesis 49:17 – “Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so
that his rider shall fall backward.”
•Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall
leap from Bashan
• Genesis 3:1 – “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”
• 1st Peter 5:8 – “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”
Genesis 10:19 – “And the border of the
Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto
Lasha.”
• A Holy Mother• “Supernatural
ly conceived son”
• He is the incarnation of
his father.• His father
was manifested as
“Blazing Light”
•He scattered
the people•He
confounded their
language.
jezebel
jezebel“Baal exalts
”“Baal
is husband to”
King Aha
b
• 1 Kings 21:25 – “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the
LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.”
• Revelation 2:20 - “Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee,
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a
prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.”
King Aha
b
jezebel
Thyatira
•“Committing Idolatry”
•“Committing Fornication”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
jezebel“Baal exalts
”“Baal
is husband to”
Rome will
be in power
!(Rev. 17)
2nd Corinthians 11:4 – “For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye
receive another spirit, which ye have not received,
or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might
well bear with him.
2nd Corinthians 11:13 – “For such are false apostles,
deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ.”
•Acts 20:27 – “For I have not shunned to
declare unto you all the counsel of
God.”
Thyatira
•“The Space of Repentance”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
Where are we going …
where have we been?
- “Eclipsed and
Entangled”
- “Christianiz
ed and Paganized”
- “Sword Smitten and Against All”
- “Devil and Doctrine”
Pergamos
Ephesus
90-200 A.D.Smyrna200-325 A.D.
Pergamos
325-500 A.D.Thyatira
500-1000 A.D.
Thyatira
•“The Certainty of Judgment”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
Thyatira
• “The Certainty of Judgment”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•CondemnationFUTURISTIC
Fulfillment
• 2nd Kings 9:33 – “And he said, Throw her down. So they
threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he
trode her under foot.”
• 2nd Kings 9:35 – “And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than
the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.”
• Revelation 14:8 – “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon
is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
because she made all nations drink of the
wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
Thyatira
• “The Certainty of Judgment”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•CondemnationFUTURISTIC
Fulfillment
Thyatira
• “The Certainty of Judgment”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•CondemnationHISTORICAL
Fulfillment
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
•Correction
Thyatira
• “Except they repent of their deeds”
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
•Correction
•Challenge
Thyatira
• Revelation 19:15 “And out of his mouth goeth a
sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the nations: and he shall rule them
with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of
the fierceness and wrath of Almighty
God.”
• Revelation 19:15 “And out of his mouth goeth a
sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he
treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and
wrath of Almighty God.”
• Revelation 19:15 “And out of his mouth goeth a
sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the nations: and he shall rule
them with a rod of iron: and he
treadeth the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of Almighty
God.”
• Revelation 22:16- “I Jesus have
sent mine angel to testify unto
you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the
bright and morning star.” Judgment and
Destruction
•Commission
•Character•Commendation
•Condemnation
•Correction
•Challenge•Call
Thyatira
Where are we going…
where have we been?