Topic: The Messages to the churches Text: Revelations 1:9-11; 2:1-7 Letter to Laodicea The city of Laodicea is located forty miles southeast of Philadelphia on the road to Colossae. It was founded by Antiochus II in the 3rd century BC and he named it after his wife, Laodice. Laodicea was the wealthiest city in […]
Topic: The Messages to the churches Text: Revelations 1:9-11; 2:1-7 Letter to Philadelphia The city of Philadelphia is located in the kingdom of Lydia, twenty-eight miles southeast of Sardis. It was named after the man who built the city, Attalus Philadelphus, King of Pergamum. The king was said to have had a very strong […]
Topic: The Messages to the churches Text: Revelations 1:9-11; 2:1-7 Letter to Sardis This letter is written to a church that is deeply seated in the world and does not realize that she has lost her source of life. Sardis was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia and it is located fifty miles […]
Topic: The Messages to the churches Text: Revelations 1:9-11; 2:1-7 Letter to Thyatira This is a letter to a church tolerating idolatry and in early stages of apostasy. Thyatira was a small town about forty eight miles southeast of Pergamum. It was established as a Macedonian colony by Alexander the Great after the destruction […]
Topic: The Messages to the churches Text: Revelations 1:9-11; 2:1-7 Letter to Pergamum This letter is being addressed to a compromising church and a church settled in the world. Pergamum was a city situated on the western part of Asia Minor and north of Smyrna and Ephesus and twenty miles from the Mediterranean Sea. It […]
Topic: The Messages to the Churches Text: Revelations 1:9-11; 2:1-7 Letter to Ephesus Ephesus is the only one of the seven churches mentioned in the book of Acts 19. It was planted by Paul, and later nurtured by Timothy. Note the explanation of 2:1 in 1:20 – Jesus holds the leaders of His churches […]
Topic: The Messages to the Churches Text: Revelations 1:9-11; 2:1-7 Introduction: We live in uncertain times and current events point to the coming of the Lord. Covid-19 has exposed the vulnerability of churches in a nation as free as America. Suddenly, in some states, it is becoming illegal to meet even in house churches. The […]
Our God works in ways that we cannot fully comprehend. We see this in His dealings with Elijah when drought and famine ravaged the world of his day. We see Elijah introduced to us in 1 Kings 17:1 pronouncing a judgment of drought upon the land because the government of Israel officially sought to replace […]