14 min
Revealtion 2:1-3 “Losing Your First Love Part I” Calvary Chapel Lehigh Valley
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- Religion och spiritualitet
Today…Lord willing…we will begin a journey along an ancient postal route.
A postal route that will lead us right up the time we live in now.
Mail would come from Rome…across the Aegean Sea…to the first stop on the route…and our first place of study…Ephesus…
From Ephesus, it would make its way to the cities of Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and finally to Laodicea.
The seven churches addressed in Revelation 2 and 3 were real churches at the time…But they also represent the church age throughout history.
When Jesus told John to write the things which are…He is referring to these seven churches.
Seven in Scripture represents completion…So, the seven churches…represent the complete history of the church.
The first church Ephesus represents the Apostolic Age, the last church, Laodicea the last church represents the age Apostasy…the age we are living in now.
So, the church age began with the Apostolicage…meaning there was still an influence in the church from the apostles.
And it will end with the age of Apostasy…a falling away from the teachings of Jesus and the apostles.
Listen to what Paul said about the last age of the church:
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition. (2 Thessalonians 2:3)
The word apostasy means…a rebellion… a falling away…or an abandonment of the truth.
So, there will be a rebellion against God’s Word…and an abandonment of the truth of God’s Word in the last days…
Are we seeing that in the church today?
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Today…Lord willing…we will begin a journey along an ancient postal route.
A postal route that will lead us right up the time we live in now.
Mail would come from Rome…across the Aegean Sea…to the first stop on the route…and our first place of study…Ephesus…
From Ephesus, it would make its way to the cities of Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and finally to Laodicea.
The seven churches addressed in Revelation 2 and 3 were real churches at the time…But they also represent the church age throughout history.
When Jesus told John to write the things which are…He is referring to these seven churches.
Seven in Scripture represents completion…So, the seven churches…represent the complete history of the church.
The first church Ephesus represents the Apostolic Age, the last church, Laodicea the last church represents the age Apostasy…the age we are living in now.
So, the church age began with the Apostolicage…meaning there was still an influence in the church from the apostles.
And it will end with the age of Apostasy…a falling away from the teachings of Jesus and the apostles.
Listen to what Paul said about the last age of the church:
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition. (2 Thessalonians 2:3)
The word apostasy means…a rebellion… a falling away…or an abandonment of the truth.
So, there will be a rebellion against God’s Word…and an abandonment of the truth of God’s Word in the last days…
Are we seeing that in the church today?
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cc-lehigh-valley/support
14 min