The FUTURE WAR Prophecies - We Will
Bring You Down - New SGAnon & Derek Johnson – Julie Green Ministries - TVBRICS
- New World Monetary Order Happening - New Julie Green Ministries - Tucker
Carlson - Hezbollah gearing up for showdown with Israel and more.
Research & Comments by Pastor
Gary Boyd
July 18th 2023
REAL RAW NEWS: AG Sentences Eric
Holder to Hang Friday July 21st - By Michael Baxter -July 18, 2023 -
If silence were golden in JAG’s eyes, detainee Eric Holder comported himself
well at the start of Monday’s proceedings, but Vice Admiral Darse E. Crandall,
after summarizing Friday’s transcript, clearly wanted from Holder an admission
of guilt in the matter of firearms that went missing and were used in homicides
and a mass shooting event, under his watch as attorney general of the United
States…. https://realrawnews.com/2023/07/jag-sentences-eric-holder-to-hang/
ALEX JONES SHOW: Gerald Celente
Declares War on Globalist Elite! - Alex Jones Show Guest Host - Tuesday, July
18, 2023 - https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/07/gerald-celente-declares-war-on-globalist-elite-alex-jones-show-guest-host-3668116.html
New Bo Bolny & Julie Green:
Sizzling Hot July Summer Update! 2023 - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - Matthew
22:37-39: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And second is
like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. Green is the head of Julie Green
Ministries. https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/07/new-bo-bolny-julie-green-sizzling-hot-july-summer-update-2023-2543445.html
MIKE ADAMS: Situation Update, July
18, 2023 - RED ALERT As 13 Nations Agree To ENGINEER Global FAMINE For
Planetary Depopulation! - Mike Adams Must Video - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - That
debt is based on Rothschild FED money, created out of nothing, and therefore
this debt amounts to strictly nothing at all. Most humans on this planet have
to provide goods and services to make some money, whereas the global elites
make money by 'making money', by printing it, which is theft and thus a crime.
But they have taken some of that fake money to bribe politicians to make that
crime legal. But what is the law? A few corrupt men coming together, writing
their will on a piece of paper, and then solemnly declaring: 'this is the
law!'. The only thing they will need now is a demented population falling for
that fraud. Only fools can be fooled. https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/07/situation-update-july-18-2023-red-alert-as-13-nations-agree-to-engineer-global-famine-for-planetary-depopulation-mike-adams-must-video-3668104.html
US MILITARY NEWS: Restored Republic via a GCR: Update as of
July 18, 2023 – CIA funds sex trafficking cult run out of the Vatican - https://theusmilitarynews.com/restored-republic-via-a-gcr-update-as-of-july-18-2023/
ZERO HEDGE: "We Will Bring You
Down": German MP Vows To Dismantle WHO's Grip On Governments - BY TYLER
DURDEN - MONDAY, JUL 17, 2023 - German MP Christine Anderson last week shredded
the World Health Organization, calling it a group of "globalitarian
misanthropists" who she - and a group of seven other MPs, have vowed to
dismantle in order to oppose the WHO supplanting democratically elected governments.
- https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/we-will-bring-you-down-german-mp-vows-dismantle-whos-grip-governments
TVBRICS: Russian and South African
presidents agree to meet in St Petersburg – 7-17-2023 - Russian President
Vladimir Putin and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have agreed to hold
a separate meeting at the summit in St Petersburg, said the Kremlin.The heads
of state will exchange views on the bilateral and international agenda,
according to a statement published on the official website of the Russian
president. In the telephone conversation, the two leaders also confirmed mutual
readiness to strengthen cooperation in various fields, said the report. In
addition, Ramaphosa informed Putin about preparations for the upcoming BRICS summit.
https://tvbrics.com/en/news/russian-and-south-african-presidents-agree-to-meet-in-st-petersburg/
KING WORLD NEWS: Nomi Prins Just
Warned What Is About To Be Announced Will Shock The World - July 16, 2023 - A
New World Monetary Order - July 16 (King World News) – Eric King: “Nomi, there is going to be this gold-backed
currency introduced (in August) by the BRICS — this is a very big deal. I told
you before we kicked off this interview that I’m not sure people understand
what this will be like (for BRICS countries and their citizens). I think it’s
going to be a trade settlement currency among all of the countries involved so
that every month or every quarter they settle the trade imbalances in physical
gold. So it will be very important for BRICS countries to maintain a proper trade
balance as they go forward and they are part of that gold-backed currency,
otherwise they are going to have to give physical gold to the other country
they have a trade deficit with to make up the imbalance. https://kingworldnews.com/nomi-prins-just-warned-what-is-about-to-be-announced-will-shock-the-world/
New SGAnon & Derek Johnson Live
on Ultra Trump the Destroyer Show - July 18th 2023 Starts 10:00 AM - Tuesday,
July 18, 2023 - https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/07/new-sganon-derek-johnson-live-on-ultra-trump-the-destroyer-show-july-18th-2023-starts-1000-am-central-time-2543433.html
Tucker Carlson Reacts to Staff
Getting FIRED at Fox - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/07/tucker-carlson-reacts-to-staff-getting-fired-at-fox-3668074.html
New Julie Green Ministries: It's Time
to Fight Back! - July 2023 - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 – (Comment: It is time to
use your authority that God has given you to drive out demons, rid the world of
the sick perverted minds that want to control us, if you are in the Body of
Christ you cannot be controlled nor influenced by the evil one. It is time to
realize we have Jesus power to do miracles, destroy the demonic hordes, rid
unbelievers of demons, heal the sick, and bring down the Holy Spirit to those
that ask. This is God’s time to show you peace & prosperity, relish in it.)
https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/07/new-julie-green-its-time-to-fight-back-july-2023-2543432.html
The FUTURE WAR Prophecies Kindle
Edition - by Bill Salus (Author) – July 18th 2023 - In the last
days, mankind will dwell in a war-torn world! Conventional battles, nuclear
exchanges and supernatural demonic invasions are coming. THE FUTURE WAR
PROPHECIES book by Bill Salus locates the battlefields, identifies the
participants, explains the motives, provides the details and explores the
outcomes of these coming world changing conflicts which include: Israel vs.
Iran and its proxies..... The destruction of Damascus in Isaiah 17..... The
final Arab-Israeli war of Psalm 83..... The Russian coalition’s invasion of
Israel in Ezekiel 38..... The two Christian-killing crusades of the Tribulation
Period.....The demonic invasion that torments unsaved people for 5
months.....The 200-million demonic army that kills one- third of
humankind.....The war in heaven between Michael the archangel vs. Satan.....
The battle of Armageddon between Jesus Christ vs. Antichrist.....The final Gog
of Magog War at the end of the Millennium...... These wars and more are covered
in this revealing book. Don’t be caught in the crossfire! Discover what wars
are coming so that you can keep yourself and your loved ones out of harm’s way.
- https://www.amazon.com/FUTURE-WAR-Prophecies-Bill-Salus-ebook/dp/B0CBWS9YXL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3KI48NLZRR5P&keywords=the+future+war+prophecies&qid=1689634946&sprefix=the+future+war+prophecies%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-1
BREITBART NEWS: James Comer - Bidens
Owned over 20 Shell Companies to Hide Payments, Launder Money - By WENDELL
HUSEBØ - 17 Jul 2023 - The Biden family opened more than 20 shell companies to
hide payments and launder money, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer
(R-KY) said Sunday. After reviewing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) at the
Treasury and subpoenaing banks and individuals, Comer posted on Twitter that
the Biden family created more than 20 entities to accept, forward, and collect
payment from a wide range of business associates. “We found all these shell
companies that make absolutely no sense,” Comer told Fox News. “I don’t believe
they have paid a penny of revenue, a penny of taxes on most of the millions of
dollars they received from our adversaries around the world.” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/17/james-comer-bidens-owned-20-shell-companies-hide-payments-launder-money/
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS: Hamas is the
Palestinian Wagner Group - As with the Russian WG, Hamas bows to no one and
obeys no one, certainly not the PA. Op-ed. - BY Barry Shaw - Jul 17, 2023 - Consider
Hezbollah as Iran’s Wagner Group. Operating under no international constraints,
they now control the country in which they are based, Lebanon. They also
operate freely in Syria, a country led by a dictator who has mass murdered his
own people and is in need of additional muscle. In this case Iran’s Wagner
Group – Hezbollah which brings us to the Palestinian Arab Wagner Group – Hamas.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374282
ISRAEL 365 NEWS: Hezbollah gearing up
for showdown with Israel - “They encircle me with words of hate; they attack me
without cause.” – PSALMS 109:3 (THE ISRAEL BIBLE) - BARUCH YEDID - ISRAEL NEWS
- JULY 17, 2023 - n a series of strategic political and military moves,
Hezbollah is intensifying preparations for an imminent confrontation with
Israel, drawing global attention and raising concerns about regional stability.
Under the guise of the battle over an Israeli border barrier, the Lebanese
terrorist group aims to preserve its option of invading the Galilee, while also
serving Iran’s interests in establishing a foothold in Syria. Hezbollah’s
leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is promoting the deployment of his forces along the
border, with over 30 observation posts in place there. Lebanese sources suggest
that the group is readying itself for a prolonged conflict with Israel, which
it believes is gradually accepting new rules of engagement set by Nasrallah. Recent
incidents include a tent manned by three-eight Hezbollah terrorists in an area
south of the border but north of an Israeli security barrier near Mount Dov,
where the border converges with Syria. https://www.israel365news.com/373592/hezbollah-gearing-up-for-showdown-with-israel/
LIFESITE NEWS: Marjorie Taylor Greene
accuses FBI of targeting Catholics while ignoring pro-abortion extremists - The
U.S. Congresswoman promised to hold the federal agencies accountable for their
actions. Mon Jul 17, 2023 - (LifeSiteNews)
— Republican U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently criticized the
FBI for “targeting” Catholics while simultaneously “not going after” the
pro-abortion extremist group Jane’s Revenge. Greene made the comments in a
recent interview with Newsmax during which she discussed a testimony from FBI
Director Christopher Wray at a July 12 hearing of the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform. As part of his testimony, Wray had doubled
down on his defense of the federal agency’s raid of Catholic sidewalk counselor
and father of seven Mark Houck, who was accused of violating the Freedom of
Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and later acquitted of all charges. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-accuses-fbi-of-targeting-catholics-while-ignoring-pro-abortion-extremists/
NEWS ADDICT: Florida Republicans
Officially Designate Covid Shots as ‘Bioweapons’ – By Hunter Fielding - July
17, 2023 - Republicans in a Florida county have banned Covid shots and
officially designated the jabs as “bioweapons.” In a landslide vote, the
Brevard County Republican Executive Committee (BREC) has passed a resolution to
ban the experimental covid vaccines, deeming both the injections and the virus
“biological and technological weapons.” The committee is now seeking support
from the county’s registered Republicans along with state lawmakers, Florida’s
Congressional delegation, and Governor Ron DeSantis. https://newsaddicts.com/florida-republicans-officially-designate-covid-shots-bioweapons/
Largest Settlement of Illegal Aliens
in US Is Quietly Growing Amid Border Crisis - By Chris Russo - Jul 13, 2023 - The
largest illegal alien “colonia” in the United States is not located in the Rio
Grande Valley or outside of El Paso. In fact, it is hundreds of miles from the
border, in an area controlled by Republican politicians and funded by a mega
donor to Texas Governor Greg Abbott. https://townhall.com/columnists/chris-russo/2023/07/13/largest-settlement-of-illegal-aliens-in-us-is-quietly-growing-amid-border-crisis-n2625642
X22 Report - Inflation Now Blamed On
We The People! Yellen Signals Recession! - Must Video - Tuesday, July 18, 2023
- The people are watching the economic system breakdown right in front of them.
As people find it difficult to make ends meet the people will begin to push
back. Yellen has now signaled that a recession is coming. She is using the same
playbook as Bernanke did in the 2008-2009 great recession. https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/07/x22-report-inflation-now-blamed-on-we-the-people-yellen-signals-recession-must-video-3668107.html
Adrenochrome Consumption in Canada -
A Dark History 2023 - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - https://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2023/07/adrenochrome-consumption-in-canada-a-dark-history-2023-2562512.html
White House Cocaine Hunter Biden
Screams Two Tiered USA Justice System Germany Normalizes Child Sexual Assault -
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - Outrage in Germany after Afghan illegal alien who was
arrested for “raping an eleven-year-old” girl was released after twelve days,
then “raped another girl, 13″. Meanwhile, in the disgraced United States, the
Secret Service closed its investigation into the White House cocaine culprit
without any suspects proving that there is a corrupt two-tiered justice system
and that the White House Secret Service is unable to protect White House staff
from a terrorist attack in the form of white powder substances like Anthrax
being brought into the White House. Click on the link above the first paragraph
to watch video. Use VPN in EU and UK. https://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2023/07/white-house-cocaine-hunter-biden-screams-two-tiered-usa-justice-system-germany-normalizes-child-sexual-assault-2543448.html
ATLAS SHRUGS: Unvaxxed Amish Death
Rates 90 Times Lower Than Rest of America - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - More front
page news you will never see….The Amish didn’t vaccinate against covid. They
didn’t social distance or mask up either. Yet they weathered the pandemic
beautifully. https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/07/unvaxxed-amish-death-rates-90-times-lower-than-rest-of-america-3668094.html
Climate Psyops! - Tuesday, July 18,
2023 - https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2023/07/climate-psyops-2707748.html
Trial Date Set in Landmark Lawsuit on
Medical Killing & Informed Consent - Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - Many of you
may have heard Scott Schara on The Sons of Liberty radio with me many times as
he researched into the targeted medical murder of his 19-year-old daughter,
Grace, who had Down Syndrome. During the
plandemic, Grace was targeted by a Roman Catholic hospital and labeled as “Do
Not Resuscitate” just before she was given a cocktail of deadly poisons that
killed her. The Schara family will now
see this case enter a courtroom and it has massive ramification for not only
the hospital, doctors and nurses involved in Grace’s death, but could reach
much further to other healthcare providers that used deadly drugs such as
Remdesivir during the CONvid-1984 that took the lives of thousands of people. https://beforeitsnews.com/healthcare/2023/07/trial-date-set-in-landmark-lawsuit-on-medical-killing-informed-consent-2541177.html
by Joseph Chambers
Published on: September 16, 2016
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
July 18th 2023
“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by
the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in
Christ Jesus: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.”
(Ephesians 1-3)
The omnipresent Son of God is in the
very midst of His Church. The Church cannot be His Church until He is in its
presence. The guarantee of any group of people being truly a church is only
when He is there. His presence is tangible; it is as real as life. When He
draws near, all that are present will know it.
Nothing has made the Church world
more helpless and problematic than the denial of the literal dimension of
Christ’s Spirit. Every soul has a spiritual capacity and that is the story of
Christianity. Until the theology of the Bible leaves our heads and arrives at
our hearts, we are nothing but religious. The bread of communion is death to
the flesh, but the drink of the cup is life and resurrection.
Jesus Christ declared emphatically
that His Words were Spirit. Everything about the devil’s kingdom is paranormal
and all of it is but an imitation of the real. People that involve themselves
with séances, fortune telling, and any degree of witchcraft will prove to you
that it is tangible and can be manifest; yet, it is all a shadow of the true
God.
Common sense will tell you that no
imitation is as wonderful and life changing as the original. It is foolish to
accept the world of evil and its reality and deny the even greater reality of
the church of Jesus Christ and His supernatural revelation. The church is
either a spiritual dynamo or it is a failure. Jesus Christ is either present or
it is all empty religion.
The seven letters to the seven
churches and all the beautiful contents leave no question of the reality of His
Church. There is a supernatural dimension to each church and all kinds of
supernatural promises that these churches received from the Lord.
The truths and doctrines of the Bible
are carefully made a prime treasure for which these churches were to be held
accountable. They were highly commended for holding these truths against all
attacks and judged if doctrines of error were allowed to triumph. To Ephesus,
the Lord said:
“And how thou canst not bear them
which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are
not, and hast found them liars” (Revelation 2:2b).
To Thyatira, He said “Notwithstanding
I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to
commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols” (Revelation 2:20).
The Bible holds truth, all truth, as the one greatest challenge for which His
church will be accountable to God.
“I charge thee therefore before God,
and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his
appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will
come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall
they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears” ( 2 Timothy 4:1-3).
Placing these seven letters between
the post-resurrection revelation of Jesus Christ as seen in Revelation one and
the future prophesies to begin in Revelation four is extremely important. The
greatest mystical number in this masterpiece of literature is the number seven.
This number is present in this one book of the Bible forty-four times. It is
found in Scripture three hundred and ninety-five times.
The Holy Spirit chose this number in
His holy revelation to convey or reveal subjects in a whole or complete form.
Seven churches mean the church universal, yet represents that universal church
as each local church having special importance. Anything seen with this
mystical number is important in every part, but great and vast in its totality.
It’s always the number of completion, whether large or small, when used in a
typological form.
Remember that each of the churches is
an individual church that was a real local congregation. They also represented
churches of this same characteristic in each period of church history.Each
church also represents a period of extended years in the whole of the church
age. The Ephesus church period began at Pentecost and continued for about
seventy years (approximately AD 30 to AD 100).
This was a special period, the
greatest of all periods, but they were beginning to leave their first love.
While studying church history, one finds that no church movement has ever
maintained its vigor and vitality longer than one hundred years. The greatest
hindrance in the church is always the loss of first love. Let’s look at the
letter to the Church of Ephesus.
“Unto the angel of the church of
Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right
hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks” (Revelation
2:1).
Every church has a cherubim assigned
to the congregation, beginning with the oversight of the shepherd and dedicated
to ministering to the whole flock of that local body. Anybody who negatively
attacks, criticizes, or messes with that church will be in trouble. The devil,
his evil spirits, the unconverted world, and even professing believers will
soon discover that the Son of God, the Lord our Christ, defends His Church if
that church totally depends on its Head.
Satan often defeats the church, not
because the victory is not available, but because ministers and members defeat
themselves.
The seven letters show no victories
for Satan, only failures in obedience and faithfulness in the church. We must
not miss this point. Nowhere in Scripture, especially in these seven letters to
His churches, is one victory ever credited to the devil. He cannot win because
he is already totally defeated. The professing believers who simply do not
apply biblical principles to the struggle lose every battle, or what could have
been a victory.
These letters, including this first
letter to Ephesus, show nothing but the absolute possibility of His Church
rising above every circumstance and fulfilling all that He has ordained for his
saints. He holds the stars or Cherubim in His perfect grasp, and they are fully
equipped for their task. Then, to assure victory, He walks in the midst of His
church.
“For where two or three are gathered
together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20).
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold
a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and
on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but
he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is
called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon
white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation 19:11-14).
“I know thy works, and thy labour,
and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou
hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them
liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured,
and hast not fainted” (Revelation 2:2-3).
Nothing of our conduct or labor is
missing from His omniscience, “For we are laborers together with God (1
Corinthians 3:9), and He is fully prepared to use every pure action we provide
with the promise of victory. The Son of God has made it plain that there is no
design in His kingdom for defeat:
“And I will give unto thee the keys
of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven” (Matthew 16:19).
The Lord has already said that very
plainly:
“ And I say also unto thee, That thou
art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18).
The emphasis must be drawn between
“His” church and “our” churches. Every time the church is defeated, it is never
won by the devil; but it’s lost by the Church. The Head of the Church has total
awareness of all our labors in full surrender to His will.
He never blesses our plans, except
when those plans are His will and leading. Our own plans will accomplish
nothing for the kingdom of Christ. “…the flesh profiteth nothing…” (John 6:63).
The church at Ephesus was busy, very busy for His kingdom. He knew their works,
their labor, and their patience; and He commended them.
He spoke only ten words of
commendation before He began to emphasize His first agenda. Their faithfulness
to defend truth against false apostles was high on His list. Every labor of the
Church must flow out of purity of doctrine.
Today’s church exalts works of
compassion above the labor of truth. The Bible has always been perfectly clear
that defending the infallible Word of God is the foundational responsibility of
the body of Christ. Doctrines never issue from good works, but good works
always issue from good doctrines. Destroy the foundation and all is in vain.
“Nevertheless I have somewhat against
thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence
thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto
thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou
repent” (Revelation 2:4-5).
This pure church that loved truth and
had labored through the dark night had also left the first results of receiving
truth. They had left their first love. The radical fire of love had been
forsaken for the greater love of being diligent against error and dedicated in
labors. This has certainly occurred in every experience of His Church, and it
is the scourge of our day.
No one ever loses his or her first
love because nothing can defeat a fervent believer. The saints leave that
radical fire of holy love for Christ because other things, often good things,
crowd out the devotion of love. No Christian or church can ever be defeated
until or unless they leave their first love.
Christ pleaded with them to repent
because the only path back to first love is repentance. They were told to do
their first works: start at the bottom and return to Him and the fire of
abandonment to His love. This is the sweet joy of Christian living in a radical
relationship of love.
“But be ye doers of the word, and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word,
and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:For
he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner
of man he was” (James 1:22-23)
No one abides long in the joy of
discipleship without this fire. The person that has left his first love will
usually deny it and claim to still possess that love in spite of all evidences.
He is probably going to be angry when you suggest his loss.It is a loss that
multitudes never recover.
Most believers who have left their
first love have an imitation love of religion and church that has replaced
their Christ-centered love and are blind to their condition. Jesus says,
“Repent or else I will remove your candlestick.” Remember that it is among the
candlesticks that He walks. The joy of His presence is one of the primary
losses of leaving one’s first love.
“But this thou hast, that thou hatest
the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 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.”
“But this you have, that you hate the
deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. ‘He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat
from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God”’
(Revelation 2:6-7).
The Ephesian church still hated error
and were full of fire against the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. This doctrine
was the effort of some in the church structure to create systems of an
hierarchy so that a few could control the massive multitudes. Certain men
wanted power and position because they had lost the sense of a Holy Spirit led
church.
The entire idea was a moving away
from the lordship of Christ and the Spirit-led church life to a system of
religion full of flesh and human control. It has been the failure of almost
every great fellowship of believers at some point in the growth of its
movement.
Every letter is concluded with a
similar ending. Always the church is reminded that the sovereign Spirit of
Christ is speaking. Deaf ears are not to be tolerated because this language is
from the Spirit of God. Every believer must be an overcomer, because no promise
is ever left for anyone but overcomers.
Just like John introduced the Lord
with one of the divine titles to each church and in each letter, He also closes
each letter with an element of great triumph of victory to the victors. In this
letter, He promises that the overcomers will eat of the tree of life in the
midst of the paradise of God.
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