Revelation Transforms - Revelation 2 (notes)

Revelation Transforms - Revelation 2

We Have

• The answer to every problem in the world because of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
• The Word of God which reveals the answers to all the problems in society.
• Revelation knowledge as a result of the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
• A great inheritance in Jesus Christ. Eph. 1

Principles About Revelation:

1. Jesus speaks and His Word unveils principles, ideas, future events and answers to problems.
2. Jesus always reveals truths, insights and strategies to the church for the purpose God has for that particular time in history.
3. Revelation is given to reveal a side of God the church has missed, lost or satan has stolen.

The Word of God Was Given By Inspiration

2 Timothy 3 All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error, for re-setting the direction of a man’s life and training him in good living. The scriptures are the comprehensive equipment of the man of God and fit him fully for all branches of his work.

Key To Revelation:

Go through the seven letters to the churches in Revelation and look for truth God has for us today. God’s Word is like a treasure chest with secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven for every generation.

Keys

• People in any given period of time can also miss the truth God has for that time like the Jewish leaders in the time of Jesus Christ.
• JESUS is God, the greatest figure to ever walk the earth with the most powerful teachings ever spoken by anyone.

The World Longs to see Jesus in us. We need to look like Jesus if we are going to win the lost and change the world. We will be transformed into His image as we behold in the Word the Glory of the Lord. Revelation reveals Jesus.

Principles in Rev. 2

1. The loveless church must return to her first love.
2. The persecuted church must endure.
3. The over tolerant church must not put up with evil but overcome evil with good.
4. The compromised church must repent and turn back to pure devotion to Jesus Christ and to the pure teaching of the Word of God.

The Seven Churches

1. To the pastor of the loveless church Jesus is revealed as the one who holds the leaders of the church in His right hand.
2. To the pastor of the persecuted church Jesus is revealed as the eternal God to look beyond your current circumstances & see your eternal future. Poverty caused by persecution isn’t a sign of the spiritual condition of the church. You are rich, don’t fear, be faithful to the end and Jesus will give you the crown of life.
3. To the pastor of the overly tolerant church Jesus is revealed as the one who has a two edged sword who will correct sin or false teaching in the church. We need the Word to keep us pure and in line doctrinally. If we don’t turn from sin & false teaching God will come to us with His sword and discipline us.
4. To the pastor of the compromised church Jesus is revealed as the one with fire blazing eyes. The one who sees through everything. The one with brazen feet, means He went to hell for us so we don’t have to go to hell.

There Is A Process

In how God communicates with the church. The Lord speaks to the leader of the church, not a prophet or an elder or a mature member of the church.

Write down what you see, both the things which are now, and the things which are to be hereafter. Rev. 1:19

Jesus promises something to every church

• Ephesian church
• 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
• Smyrna church
• 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
• Pergamos Church
• 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
• Church at Thyatira
• 26-29 To the one who is victorious, who carries out my work to the end, I will give authority over the nations, just as I myself have received authority from my Father, and I will give him the morning star. He shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the potter’s vessels shall be broken to pieces. Let the listener hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.