Armageddon pt1

9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 11 saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, 18 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. 19 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. 20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary Angels of the Seven Churches

ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES (Gk aggeloi tōn hepta ekklēsiōn (ἀγγελοι των ἑπτα ἑκκλησιων))

The number seven within the Bible is mostly sysblomlic for completion, fullness.

The seven angels have been identified as the guardian angels of the seven churchs. Which is similar to what we read in Deut 32:8

When Apostle Jones beginnings to writes he addesses the revelations to the angels of the seven church

God has assigned angles over His churches and they walk with his people.

To The Church in Ephesus

Rev 2:1-7

Deeds, hard work, perseverance. Does not tolerate wicked men. Endures hardships. Hates the practices of the Nicolaitans

Rebuke - Has forsaken her first love.

Solution - Remember; repent; do the things you did at first.

Have you lost your first love?

To The Church In Smyrna

Rev 2:8-11

Sufferers Persecution and poverty

Do not be afraid. Be faithful, even to the point of death.

Are you afraid?

To the Church in Pergamum

Rev 2:12-17

Remains true to Christ; does not renounce her faith.

Rebuke - People there hold the teachings of Balaam and of the Nicolaitans

Solution - Repent

Becareful of false teachinings!

To the church in Thyatira

Rev 2:18-29

Deeds, love, faith, service, perseverance, doing more than at first.

Rebuke - Tolerates Jezebel with her immorality and idolatry.

Solution - Repent; hold on to what you have.

Becareful of the false teachers!

To the Church in Sardis

Rev3:1-6

Deeds; reputation of being alive.

Rebuke - Dead

Soultion - Wake up! Strengthen what remains. Remember what you received, obey it, repent.

Don’t be a spiritual zombe.

To the Church in Philadelphia

Re 3:7-13

Deeds, keeps Christ’s word and does not deny His name, endures patiently.

Hold on to what you have.

Keep enduring you will make it!

To the church in laodicea

Re 3:14-22

Rebuke - Lukewarm, neither cold nor hot. Wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

Solution - Buy from Christ refined gold, white clothes, and eye salve. Be earnest, and repent.