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Where are we going… where have we been?

Where are we going… where have we been?.

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Where are we going… where have we been?

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  1. Where are we going… where have we been?

  2. Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 - “I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.”

  3. God has a plan and so does the devil. • The God of the Bible is the God of History. • The devil does not want you to identify him in history. • History repeats itself. • Don’t remove the ancient landmark.

  4. Where are we going… where have we been? • Application: • Historical • Devotional (Inspirational) • Doctrinal (Prophetical)

  5. “Growing Outand Growing Up”- “Bearingand Baring”-“Right Raveand Left Love” - “Hype and Hypocrisy”-“Historyand His Story” -“Acts and Actions”- “Revealedand Revealing” -“Fully Purposed andFully Positioned”- “Exposed and Exposure” • Ephesus Where are we going … where have we been?

  6. - “Blessingsand Cursings”- “Blindand Seeing”-“Nothing and Everything”- “Seedand Situation” -“Cost and Cause”- “Informationand Informed” • Smyrna Where are we going … where have we been?

  7. Pagan Rome

  8. - “Eclipsedand Entangled”- “Christianizedand Paganized”-“Sword Smitten and Against All”- “Deviland Doctrine” • Pergamos Where are we going … where have we been?

  9. Ephesus • Pergamos 90-200 A.D. 325-500 A.D. • Smyrna • Thyatira 200-325 A.D. 500-1000 A.D.

  10. Psalms 119:130 – “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.”

  11. - “Odorand Order” - “Lastand First” • Thyatira Where are we going … where have we been?

  12. Thyatira • Commission • Character • Commendation • Condemnation • Correction • Challenge • Call

  13. Thyatira-“Odor of Affliction” • Commission (Continual/Sacrifice) • The name “Thyatira”

  14. Thyatira • Commission • Character • “The Son of God” • “Eyes as flames of Fire” • “Feet like Fine Brass”

  15. Thyatira “I know”… • Commission • Character • Commendation • “Thy Works” • “Thy Charity” • “Thy Service” • “Thy Faith” • “Thy Patience”

  16. Where are we going…where have we been? • Thyatira “Fornicated andFallen”

  17. Thyatira • Commission • Character • Commendation • Condemnation

  18. Commission • Character • Commendation • Condemnation • Thyatira • “Committing Fornication” • “Committing Idolatry”

  19. Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. • Acts 21:25 – “As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.”

  20. 1st Corinthians 6:18 – “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” • 1st Corinthians 7:2- “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband”.

  21. 1st Corinthians 10:8 – “Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”

  22. Colossians 3:5 – “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry” • Ephesians 5:3 – “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints”

  23. Proverbs 2:16 – “To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words” • Proverbs 6:24 – “To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.” • Proverbs 7:5 – “That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.”

  24. Hebrews 4:12-13 - “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”

  25. Ephesians 2:8-9 – “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” • 2nd Corinthians 5:21 – “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”.

  26. The Book Of Judges

  27. Ephesians 6:13- “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

  28. Revelation 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

  29. Rome sits on seven mountains.

  30. Rome will be in power!(Rev. 17)

  31. Genesis 49:17 – “Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.” • Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan

  32. Genesis 3:1 – “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” • 1st Peter 5:8 – “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”

  33. Genesis 10:19– “And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.”

  34. A Holy Mother • “Supernaturally conceived son” • He is the incarnation of his father. • His father was manifested as “Blazing Light”

  35. He scattered the people • He confounded their language.

  36. jezebel

  37. jezebel • “Baal exalts” • “Baal is husband to”

  38. King Ahab

  39. 1 Kings 21:25 – “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.” • Revelation 2:20 - “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.”

  40. King Ahab

  41. jezebel

  42. Commission • Character • Commendation • Condemnation • Thyatira • “Committing Fornication” • “Committing Idolatry”

  43. jezebel • “Baal exalts” • “Baal is husband to”

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