Reading The First Five Chapters Of Revelations Without Stopping

no greater? God doesn't call that a 'great' mystery - however,

I don't mean to be rude, but what is vastly more important than anything in Revelation is understanding the Gospel . . . [first]. We can read the entire Bible but if we do not understand the Purpose of Christ, the Work of Christ, and the Effect of Christ . . . none of it matters in the least. We can quote scripture all day long, but if we do not understand those three elements of Christ, there is no hope.

My recommendation, based upon the THREE elements of Christ noted above, is to read the SEVEN verses below . . . and memorize them as if they were the new John 3:16.

Colossians 2:9-15 NLT - "For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross."

Why "pastors" do not teach these seven verses is the single most disgusting thing regarding our modern-day "church" system. It is because our "pastors" refuse to teach Spiritual Circumcision that renders today's "church" as apostate. Simply ignoring the Heart of the Gospel is no excuse. For, this ignoring renders their "gospel" as a false gospel.

Galatians 1:8-9 NIV - "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God's curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God's curse!"

There are lots of sevens is this book, it is God's number and represents perfection and completeness.

The "seven stars" in His right hand are the symbol for the angels (pastors) of the seven churches.

The "seven golden candlesticks" represent light, the church is to be the light of this dark world.

This is where dispensationalism is born. The seven churches here representing the entire church age from beginning to end.

Every time you see “7” it is the Word and Spirit working together to accomplish the Father’s Will.

7 = the Work of the Holy Spirit completing and finishing what the Word of God sent It to do….God’s Word does not return void, It accomplishes what It was sent to do.

The Word of God never works alone, It is always accompanied with the Holy Spirit.

The Word is God’s Authority; and
The Holy Spirit is God’s Power.

https://www.hallindsey.com/videos/hal-lindsey-presents-11152020/712/

Absolute baloney!

The ramblings of a false prophet!

Yes

Idk why so many people jump straight to Revelation and probably never even read all th way through leviticus for example.
It's the last book in the Bible, which means there are 65 books before it. Why does anyone think they will understand Revelation without a firm grasp on everything that precedes it?

If a new believer should read any book all the way through over and over it would probably be Romans - it lays out the gospel in detail. And to understand Romans we have to go all over the OT putting together Paul's arguments - so Romans isn't alone either; we need the whole of scripture!

I wish to add to your point -

In the Old Testament economy - The seven points of light, upon the single lampstand, demonstrated the Glory and Illumination of God, to the Israelites, in it's completeness. They were God's chosen people and the Lord was with them. This spiritual light, was provided for them in the midst of the meeting place (Tabernacle). The only place where God had placed His Name, until the building of the Temple.

In the New Testament economy - God temporarily placed Israel in a state of blindness and the seven points of spiritual illumination (completeness), were removed from them and were broken down into seven individual lampstands (completeness), of the Assembly age. While no one single assembly represents the "complete" revelation, as it did in the Tabernacle/Temple, the seven individual assemblies do. Each one being given spiritual light as God sees fit.

It would be erroneous therefore, to say that each one of the assemblies, seen in Rev. 1-3, are the assembly condition in various ages. This view destroys the completeness of the seven lampstands. All seven of the lampstands are present at any given time in history. They are not piece-milled off, one by one throughout history. The modern day assembly can only have one but all seven are in the world. This is not to say there can only be seven true lampstands (assemblies) but that the "completeness" of the lampstands are in the world, thus the completeness of Christ's Revelation are being proclaimed in the world.

The lampstands themselves, represent the life giving presents of Christ, in the assemblies. Christ threatened to remove the lampstand from Ephesus (Rev.2:5). If the lampstand is removed, from an assembly, this not only means that this assembly is no longer a spiritual light to others but also means, the halls of that assembly have been darkened. The Lord is no longer in that assembly - it's spiritual life is dead. Many so-called churches, today, suffer from this condition.

I haven't seen Hal Lindsey on TV for quite a few years. I have read many of his books regarding end-time events. Very interesting.

Those churches are not regarded as allegorical but as TYPES of the church ages.
So what do we have in typology:
Ephesus -- 30 AD to 100 AD
Smyrna -- 100 AD to 300 AD
Pergamum -- 300 AD to 600 AD
Thyatira -- 600 AD to 1500 AD
Sardis -- 1500 AD to 1750 AD
Philadelphia -- 1750 AD to 1900 AD
Laodicea -- 1900 AD to Present

Well that was an interesting post but was there some point you were trying to make?

Hello Awelight: Pablo (A Brother from Mexico) passed this on to someone else here, and I Saw it and thought it was interesting. So I passed it on to some of you here because it does have to do with the first five books of Revelation, which is the subject of this thread...

People say this, I will not discount the possibility, however, I think its more likely that Jesus gave us TYPES of Churches that are in every time period you listed, and thus crosses all time. Jesus makes that point by pointing to seven churches just in Asia-minor in the 1st Century. See my point ? I mean Sardis was around in the 1st century as was Pergamum, so, IMHO, I don't think its spread out time periods, I think its 7 different TYPES across the whole church age. But I used to see it like the above myself, the reason I chanted is I came to understand the 7 Churches is nit just chosen for any reason, and 7 stands fir COMPLETION, so that changed my perception, I understood in my mind Jesus was speaking about the entire church age and thus all of the types over that period.

We have a CARPET BOMBER above who is just copy and pasting from another site. He doesn't want to discuss or debate anything, he's just trying to spread his doctrine.

I don't mean to be rude, but what is vastly more important than anything in Revelation is understanding the Gospel . .

I agree, because we must have a correct understanding of the Gospel if we are to be equipped with the knowledge necessary to avoid getting the Mark of the Beast:

But, while the Gospel is of primary importance, God says those who read and understand Revelation are blessed, and I want all the blessings I can get my hands on.

I agree, because we must have a correct understanding of the Gospel if we are to be equipped with the knowledge necessary to avoid getting the Mark of the Beast:

But, while the Gospel is of primary importance, God says those who read and understand Revelation are blessed, and I want all the blessings I can get my hands on.

Two points, firstly, the Church will not be on earth for the 70th week troubles anyway, so the whole point is not really that relevant. But on the other hand it is, we need to understand Revelation because it ties together the Old Testament and New Testament perfectly, and if we leave a testimony in blogs etc. they will be read by those who don't make the Rapture, and our pointing out what the book of Revelation means and how God showed us what was gong to come to pass, and thus what will soon (at the mod point) be coming, thus they need to repent and become Martyrs or else they will spend eternity in hell.