Post by Les Brewer on Dec 13, 2015 15:43:07 GMT
The Lord’s Word to His Church: Sardis - Revelation 3:1–6
We are looking at Revelation, particularly chapter 2 and 3, because in this book, the apostle John received a series of visions. And the vision that begins the book of Revelation is a vision of Christ in His church. The first and few chapters are really about the present: Christ and His church, Christ in His church, Christ speaking to His church.
In Asia Minor, there were seven churches that had been established in seven cities. Basically, when Paul founded the church in Ephesus, that church became a strong church and took the gospel, according to Acts 19:10, throughout all the rest of Asia Minor – which is Modern Turkey – and churches were established in many cities. Seven of them are mentioned here. But some 30 years had passed since the founding of those churches. And those churches had settled into certain kinds of personalities, if you will, certain kind of character.
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