Judgment Begins At The House Of God

Undercover Boss

Whats is the premise of Undercover Boss?

Are there parallels between the show Undercover Boss and Revelation Chapters 2 and 3?

Are there parallels between the show Undercover Boss and Revelation Chapters 2 and 3?

Dispensational Theology interpretation of the letters to the seven churches

If you relocated to Ephesus and visited the Ephesian church

Dispensational Theology interpretation of the letters to the seven churches

Each church and it’s letter is representative of one of seven separate and distinct era’s or ages of church History

The Ephesian Church represents the characteristics of church history at the end of the ___________ age (the death of the last Apostle John). Continuing its work with a certain militancy but a receding of its first ____________

The Smyrnan church is the era of Roman ______________ beginning with Trajan (98 AD) and continuing to the reign of Constantine (AD 313)

The Pergamum congregation is thought to represent the church period immediately following Constantine’s ___________ of Christianity when the church became married to the world then became theologically and morally apostate.

The Church at Thyatira is usually viewed as the church of the ________________ ages however, it could hardly be said that the deeds of the middle age church grew better as time went on, it actually grew worse through more heretical teaching and and morally licentious.

The Church at Sardis is considered to be the church of the reformation when some are found who have not defiled themselves even though the majority of the church is still dead.

The Church of Philadelphia is pictured as the church of ______________ expansion, beginning with the work of Willam Carey (1761) and continuing until the contemporary period.

The Laodicean church ____________ the modern/ contemporary/Post modern church age beginning in the early 1900’s

there are many problems with this view however the most glaring are,

No where in the book of revelation does it say that the meaning of these letters are anything other than real letters to real people in real churches with real problems.

It creates a huge problem for the biblical doctrine of imminence. or the soon, or sudden or unannounced return of Jesus.

The Pattern of the Letters

Commission— “To the _________________ of the church at...”

Character— The one who ____________ refers back to the description of Jesus in Chapter one, as it relates specifically to this church.

Commendation— “I know your ______________”

Condemnation— “I have this _______________ you”

Correction— “repent, turn, change”

Call— “The one who has an ____________ let him _________” ( if the shoe fits…)

Challenge— “To him who __________________”

The only departures from this pattern are, there are no words of commendation for Sardis or Laodicea, and there are no words of Condemnation for the churches of Smyrna or Philadelphia.

The Church At Ephesus, The Preoccupied Church

Applications for today

Correct ___________ does not equal Love for ________ or His _______________

How to tell if there is a _______________ from your _________ love… 1 John, The first indicator of a lack of love for God is a lack of love for the brethern

Do not __________________ on ____________ accomplishments

To _______________ a departure from the Lord, we must go back to where the departure ______________.