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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?