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Where are we going… where have we been?

Ephesus • Pergamos • Sardis 90-200 A.D. 325-500 A.D. 1000-1500 A.D. • Smyrna • Thyatira • Philadelphia 200-325 A.D. 500-1000 A.D. 1500-1900 A.D.

Where are we going… where have we been?

“as a flame of fire” Revelation 1:14

Revelation 3:7 – “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;”

Ephesus “Fully Purposed” • Smyrna “Bitterness/Death” • Pergamos “Much Marriage” • Thyatira “Odor of Affliction” • Sardis “Red Ones” • Philadelphia “Brotherly Love”

Laodicea- (1900- Rapture)“The Rights of the People”(“Civil Rights”) • Commission • The name “Laodicea”

Philadelphia- Love for OTHERS • Laodicea- Love for SELF

Mark 12:28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? • Mark 12:29-31 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Revelation 3:7 – “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;”

Acts 10:34 – “Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons”

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Revelation 1: 9-20

Johns’ Reaction to Jesus

1 John 1:1 - "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life”

John 19:26-27(a) – “When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother!”

2nd Corinthians 5:15 – “And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again”.

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Ezekiel’s Reaction to Jesus

1st Peter 1:15 “But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all mannerof conversation”

Romans 11:36 – “For ofHim, and throughHim, and to Him, are all things: to Whom be gloryfor ever. Amen.” • Romans 12:1-2 – “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,acceptableunto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” • 1 Corinthians 15:31 – “I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”

Galatians 2:20 – “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me”.

Ephesians 4:13 “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of thefulnessof Christ”

Revelation 1: 9-20

Ezra 9:4 – “Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.”

Ephesians 3:20-21 “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.”

Deuteronomy 23:14 – “For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that He see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee”.

Habakkuk 1:12-13 – “Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?”

Matthew 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” • Hebrews 12:14 – “Follow peace with all men, and holiness,without which no man shall see the Lord”

Deuteronomy 23:11-14 – “But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again. Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.”

Ephesians 5:27 “That He might present it to Himselfa glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

1st Peter 1:15 “But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation”

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