Letter to the Church in Thyatira (Part 4)
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Condemnation(Rev. 2:20-23)
Condemnation(Rev. 2:20-23)
Note the connection between Rev. 2:20 and 2:14...
Someone is committing _______________________, and __________________things sacrificed unto ____________________.
In verse 14 it is called the doctrine of Balaam, and here in verse 20 it is called Jezebel.
A new Testament study of the word fornication reveals this:
Acts 15:29_______________ from it!
Acts 21:25 _______________ from it!
1 Cor. 6:8 _______________ from it!
1 Cor. 7:2 _________________ it!
1 Cor. 10:8 Don’t ______________ it!
Colossians 3:5 ___________________ ( or, ___________) it!
Eph. 5:3 Don’t let it _____________________ be ________________ among you!
I think we understand that God hates fornication, and both kinds… There is a physical fornication and there is a spiritual fornication and God’s views on both of them are the same… He hates them both!
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, which were better than thyself:
A “woman” in the Bible, when it is used connection to religion is always showing us a ___________________ _____________________ _____________________. (Example: “Strange woman” of the Book of Proverbs.)
The world is full of lots of strange woman, and in each case they will mess up your life physically… The same is true of the false religious systems of the world which the Bible pictures for us in that light, and it does so because there is a lesson for us to learn in it.
A “strange woman” (harlot) seduces a man physically, the same way a “strange woman” (false religious system) does it spiritually.
Read: (Proverbs chapter 7)
The false religious system is no different, it promises love through fair speech and flattering but it the way to hell. Through its flattering either you are so great that you have saved yourself through all of your good works and self righteousness, or you have been so good that you have been able to maintain that salvation all on your own…
Consider how this differs from the Gospel of Christ.
When we got saved, it wasn’t with flattering… Someone cared enough about us to share the Gospel of Christ with us! Then Christ through those eyes that are as a lamp of fire expose what we truly were… We were Christ-less, God-less, hopeless, and helpless, all of which was a truth that we all had to own. It had nothing to do with what I had done or what I had to offer, for I was totally incapable doing anything for God, of offering anything to God, or being able to be in a place before God. True salvation isn’t brought through flattery but it is brought through a flattening…
While true salvation is wrought through what God has done, the false religious systems of the world make it all about us...
God does something for us when He calls this system here in Revelation by a certain name because it allows us to go back and study the impact that this woman had on the world. This is a call for us to search the Scriptures and learn what He is trying to teach us in the Thyatira period through Jezebel in the Old Testament. Such an impact in fact that to this day, I have never met anyone that thought so little of their child that they names their daughter Jezebel.
Context:
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my son. And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. And the man departed out of the city from Beth-lehem-judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place. And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.