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Revelation 2:1-7
Ἐφεσῖνος
Outline:
We should all realize that these letters are important to each and every one of us.
The
letters are not only for the historic churches that existed 2000 years ago but also for us
today.
They are to the churches (plural) and to all those that have an ear to hear what the
Spirit saith.
Smyrna and Philidelphia are the only two churches that have nothing bad said
about them.
I.
SALUTATION AND NAME OF CHURCH IDENTIFIED verse 1(He knows us by name)
II.
IDENTIFICATION OF CHRIST AS THE SENDER verse 1(Title of Christ given.
This is
relative to the core message that Christ communicates to the Church in Ephesus)
III.
ASSERTION OF KNOWLEDGE verses 2,3 (That which Christ Commends in the
Church)
IV.
COMMENT AND CONCERN verse 4(That Which Christ Condemns in the Church)
V.
EXHORTATION verse 5,6 (Jesus emphatically urges the Ephesian Church to
remember, repent, resume, and remain)
VI.
PROMISED BLESSING verse 7b (The graciousness of the promise is to incite them
to heed His word)
VII.
ADMONITION TO HEED verse 7a(They were not only to hear the word but to heed
the word)
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I.
SALUTATION AND NAME OF THE CHURCH IDENTIFIED (He knows us by name)
“Unto the Angel of the Church of Ephesus write…”
A. John had just seen a vision of the risen Lord.
The one for whom he was in exile and
the one for whom He would now write.
John apparently regained his composure
after falling to the Lordʼs feet as one that was dead and grabbed a “pen” in hand
and started writing all that the Lord told Him to write.
B. All that John wrote was what the Lord told Him to write in chapter.
And so we have a
divine outline of the book in 1:19 given to us.
There the Lord had specifically
commanded him that he should write “the things which [he] has seen” (the vision of
the risen Lord in glory and power, chapter 1), “the things which are” (the topic at
hand and the present state known as the church age, chapters 2,3), and “the things
which shall be hereafter” (hereafter is meta tauta [μετά ταῦτα] in the greek, the
things that will happen when the church age comes to a close at that great event
known as the rapture of the church [ἁρπάζω = harpazō, caught up])
C. Now John begins to write the Lordʼs personal letters to these seven churches
(Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philidelphia, and Laodicea) as
Jesus dictated them to him.
1.
It is interesting to me that The Lord chose this method of writing to these seven
churches.
If the Lord wanted to He could have simply sent a direct letter to each
church without any human hand in the mix.
But he chose a method where he
dictates His letter and then one of His disciples would write what was dictated
and then it would be sent to where it needed to Go.
To me this lends a great
deal of credibility to the letters of Paul who wrote several of his letters this way.
If
Paul chose this method of writing and then latter on our Lord chose the very
same method of writing we can conclude that Paul had chosen an effective and
reliable way to transmit a letter to someone or to a church.
In other words there
need not be worry as to “who wrote” these or Pauls letters because there was
someone transcribing them.
These letters to the seven churches were not letters
from John but from the Lord Himself!
D. The angel that is mentioned in the Salutation, as stated last week, could be a
pastor, as many think, or it very well may be an angelic being looking in on and over
the church and all that took place there.
The important thing is that the “angel” is
representative of the whole church.
1.
The word in greek for angel is aggelos (ἄγγελος), and simply means a
messenger.
Almost every time this word is used in the Bible it is speaking of an
angelic being.
But there are instances where this word occurs and speaks of a
human messenger.
See Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 7:24, 27; 9:52.
E. Ephesus (e-fe-sē'-nos, Ἐφεσῖνος) means desirable:
Map of Ancient Ephesus
1.
The city itself was founded about 1400 BC
2. Through many years of history it eventually became the Roman capital of the
province of Asia
3. It was known as the “Queen of Asia”
or as Pliny put it “the light of Asia”1
4. It was extremely wealthy and very
beautiful, in fact, it was one of the
most beautiful cities at that time.
5.
The “Marble Way”, as the street was
so called, went from the temple of
Artemis or Diana through the city to
the Magnesia Gate (one of the three
entrances to the city of Ephesus)
6.
The Arcadian way, another main road
which went through the city.
It began
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