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Biblical Church History . Following the Hand of God and the Hand of Satan . THE CHURCH PERIODS . THE 7 PERIODS OF CHURCH HISTORY . S m y r n a. Revelation 2:8-11 c. 200-325 A.D. “Bitterness and death”. S m y r n a. I. The Commission Rev. 2: 8a . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Biblical Church History
Following the Hand of God and the Hand of Satan
THE CHURCH PERIODS
Church Reference Approx. date
Meaning
Ephesus Rev. 2:1-7 90 – 200 AD Fully purposedSmyrna Rev. 2: 8-11 200-325 AD Bitterness and
death Pergamos Rev. 2: 12-17 325-500 AD Much marriageThyatria Rev. 2: 18-29 500- 1000
ADOder of affliction
Sardis Rev. 3:1-6 1000- 1500 AD
Red ones
Philadelphia
Rev. 3: 7-13 1500- 1900 AD
Brotherly love
Laodicea Rev. 3:14-22 1900- Rapture
Civil rights
THE 7 PERIODS OF CHURCH HISTORY
Revelation 2:8-11c. 200-325 A.D.S
myrna “Bitterness and
death”
Smyrna
I. The CommissionRev. 2: 8a
(Rev 2:8) And unto the angel of the
church in Smyrna write; These things
saith the first and the last, which was dead,
and is alive;
Smyrna
II. The Character Rev. 2:8b
(Rev 2:8) And unto the angel of the
church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and
the last, which was dead, and is alive;
Smyrna
III. The Commendation
Rev. 2:9-10
Smyrna A. It was
a persecut
ed Church“bitterness
and death”
(Rev 2:9) I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews,
and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
(Rev 2:10) Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of
you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have
tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give
thee a crown of life.
THE TEN OFFICIAL ROMAN
PERSECUTIONS
Smyrna B. It was
a performi
ng Church“bitterness
and death”
Smyrna C. It was
a poverty
stricken Church“bitterness
and death”
Smyrna
IV. The Condemnation
Rev. 2:9-10
(Rev 2:9) I know thy works, and tribulation,
and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are
Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of
Satan.
Smyrna A. The
progression of Bible
deviations
“bitternessand death”
THE FALSE DOCTRINE THAT GOD IS DONE
WITH THE JEW
SMYrNA
Our lord calls this teaching Satanic and Blasphemous
He also is letting us know that this will be one of the fundamental doctrine that Satan will use to build his counterfeit church (Religious system)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING THIS TEACHING
SMYrNA
During this time the Ante-Nicene church fathers began to teach that: Because the Christian is a Spiritual Jew (Romans 2)
Therefore he is also a Physical Jew
Therefore all the promises in the Word of god to the Jew are now given to the Church.
And because of that God is now through with the Jews
WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS DOCTRINE THAT OUR LORD IS REFERRING
TO?
SMYrNA
Further ramifications of this teaching: The Christian has replaced the Jew
The Church has replaced Israel
And the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven are the same
WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS DOCTRINE THAT OUR LORD IS REFERRING
TO?
MILLENNIAL REIGN
SMYrNA
What you believe about the Jew will put you in one of three Categories doctrinally when it comes to the Biblical teaching of the Millennial reign Pre-Millennial
Post-Millennial
A-Millennial
SMYrNA
Pre = Before
A pre - millennialist believes that Christ will return before the 1000 year reign
Post = After A post - millennialist believes that Christ will return after the 1000 year region.
A = Not A – millennialist believe that Christ is NOT going to come back to reign on this earth
Understanding the different views of the millennium
Three relevant examples of what happens doctrinally when you lose sight of the
Jew:
BAPTISM
TONGUES
ETERNAL
SECURITY
The millennial reign issue is always a Political issue… because it deals
with Governmental authority on Earth
Warning!
(Isa 9:6-7) For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and
peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his
kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with
justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts
will perform this.
PRE-MILLENNIAL REIGN
SMYrNA
We Don’t believe God is done with
the Jew We believe Christ came the first time to establish the kingdom of God..(a spiritual Kingdom)We believe Christ came the first time to establish the kingdom of heaven..(a physical kingdom)We believe the kingdom of Heaven was rejected by the Nation of Israel, so God turned to the Gentile.
PRE-MILLENNIALIST
SMYrNA
But we don’t believe that means
God is finished with the Jews!!!We believe Rom.9,10,11.. “Blindness in part is happened to Israel..” And we simply entered a parenthesis called the “Church Age.” (70 weeks of Daniel)Believe God will restore the Nation of Israel, and all the promises in the Word of God to them will be fulfilled.We leave their promises alone, and claim promises intended for the church..
PRE-MILLENNIALIST
SMYrNA
We invest our time, resources,
and energies in reproducing spiritual “sons of God” on the earth
We believe our job is to make disciples in every nation.
The premillennialists’ view and approach toward human government:..We believe every government is destine for failure
PRE-MILLENNIALIST
POST-MILLENNIAL REIGN
SMYrNA
They believe the job of the
Christian is to make the world a better place in which to live…(i.e. To bring about peace on earth, and good will toward men)..And when we get the world to that place, THEN Christ will come back to rule for 1000 years.
This belief proves that man is an incurable optimist
POST-MILLENNIALIST
SMYrNA
That’s why the Methodists,
Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Southern Baptist approach missions the way they do: Socially
• Feed the poor• Build a school• Build a hospital
The postmillennialists view and approach toward human government:
POST-MILLENNIALIST
Postmillennialism (literally, “after the thousand years”) is the belief that
Christ will physically return to the earth only after a non-literal millennium is
completed. Postmillennialism is optimistic about the end times. Christ’s
reign over the earth from heaven increases during the millennium, which
is thought to be not a literal one thousand year period, but “a very long
time.” Postmillennialism places the Church in a role of transforming whole
social structures before the Second Coming and endeavoring to bring
about a “Golden Age” of peace and prosperity with great advances in education, the arts, sciences and
medicine.
The Postmillennial ViewBy Jay Rogers
Published April 2008
Rick Warren The author of the all-time
best seller “The Purpose Driven Life” wants church
members to get involved in fighting poverty and
disease around the world. Rick Warren, Pastor of Saddleback Church in
California, calls the church “the untapped giant” in the struggle to end poverty. In
an interview with host Peggy Wehmeyer, Warren says, “My goal is to move the American church from
selfish consumerism to unselfish contribution.” He says helping the poor is what being a Christian
is all about.
Soulful MattersBy Kenneth L. Woodward | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Oct 31, 1994
…She thinks like a Methodist, talks like a Methodist and wants
to reform society just like a well-Sunday-schooled Methodist churchwoman should. ""I am,''
she told Newsweek in an exclusive interview at the White
House last week, ""an old-fashioned Methodist.''
""She's really a self-churched woman,'' says the Rev. Donald
Jones, her former youth minister, who developed his
privileged suburban students' social consciences by taking
them to visit migrant workers' children. More than other
Protestants, Methodists are still imbued with the turn-of-the-century social gospel, which
holds that Christians have been commissioned to build the Kingdom of God on earth.
And like her mother, 14-year-old Chelsea Clinton is being
raised a Methodist.The Methodist ethos extends to politics as well. The First Lady's speech in April 1993
calling for ""remodeling society by redefining what it means to be a human in the
20th century'' may have startled some listeners, but its ambitious optimism was fully
consonant with the Methodists' liberal social creed
Religion in the Civil War: The Northern Side
James Howell MoorheadPrinceton Theological Seminary
…To examine Protestant attitudes in the 1860s is
thus to learn much about the popular mood
and motivations of Northerners as their
"boys" marched off to war. We will look at
three of these attitudes of Northern Protestants:
Next, Christian ministers often portrayed the war for
the Union in millennial terms. Drawing on the
imagery of the twentieth chapter of Revelation and on other portions of the Bible describing events
near the close of history, they suggested that a Northern victory might prepare the way for the
Kingdom of God on earth.
(This did not mean that they expected Jesus to return
visibly or literally in the near future. Most Northern
ministers were postmillennialists {a technical term designating those who
believed that the Second Coming of Jesus would occur after the millennium or the thousand years of earthly
bliss foretold in the twentieth chapter of Revelation.} In this scheme, no visible return of Jesus could be in the offing
since that event, at the earliest, had to be at least a
thousand years away.)
a technical term designating those who believed that the Second
Yet even if most did not expect an early literal return of Jesus,
they did anticipate that current events would lead
shortly to a time when God's reign would be more
thoroughly established on earth. Thus one Baptist minister, preaching in
Philadelphia in 1863, claimed that the defeat of the rebellion
would bring a time that the Founding Fathers of the republic "pictured and
dreamed about, and prayed for. It will come with blessings,
and be greeted with Hallelujahs, it will be the
Millennium of political glory
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath
are stored;He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift
sword;His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.Chorus
I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;“As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall
deal”;Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His
heel,Since God is marching on.
Chorus
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.Chorus
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men
free;[originally …let us die to make men free]
While God is marching on. Chorus
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.
WORLD WAR 1
“The war to end all
wars”
A-MILLENNIAL REIGN
SMYrNA
After WWI, many stopped believing
Christ would (literally) return to the earth to rule and reign at all They were then forced (if they believed the bible at all), to take the biblical teaching on the Kingdom promised to Israel, and spiritualize it to be fulfilled in the churchAlthough Amillennialism became popularized at the after the end of WWI, it began in the Smyrna Church age
A-MILLENNIALIST
SMYrNA
Blunders Of A-millennialism –
1. Amillennialism fosters no literal interpretation of scripture, even though Old Testament verses quoted in the New Testament were taken literally by New Testament authors, and Jesus Christ Himself.
2. Amillennialism equates the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven and the church. This permits misapplication of doctrinal passages. For example, if the Kingdom of Heaven is synonymous with the church, then it would be possible for a saved person to be “cast out into outer darkness” (Matt. 8:12).
A-MILLENNIALIST
SMYrNA
Blunders Of A-millennialism –
3. Amillennialism teaches that the current age is the Millennial age. But the characteristics of the Millennium (Satan bound, no curse, no devils, absolute peace, longevity of life, ect.) are not in effect today.
4. Amillennialism also alleges that the first resurrection is a spiritual resurrection, like Eph. 2:1,2. Once the literal, bodily resurrection is done away with, who is to say that Jesus Christ rose bodily? [See the readings in the NWT and NASB that deny the bodily ascension of Jesus Christ in Luke 24:51,52.]
A-MILLENNIALIST
(Mat 16:18-19) 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. 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.
Knights of Columbus Book “C” of the Knights of Columbus “Peter
receiving the Keys “
“Jesus could scarcely had used stronger or plainer words to indicate that he would confer on Peter such great authority that any act of Government, any rule that he
would prescribe, any interpretation of the master’s teachings, which he should
propagate, would be ratified, sanctioned and fully approved by God in Heaven”
Peter makes a wrong interpretation in Gal. 2Peter curses, swears and denies Christ 3 times at the end of the GospelsPeter rebukes the Lord in Matt. 16Peter argues with the Lord in Acts 10
Knights of Columbus Book “D” of the Knights of Columbus pg. 14-18
“Peter, the Pope, and Infallibility”
“Peters’ successor fell heir to Peters’ job. Which carried with it the assurance,
divine guidance, and assistance such had been promised to Peter. This is what is meant of the infallibility of the of the
Pope”
Crusades
Augustine He was the Catholic Bishop of North Africa
In 354 Ad he wrote a book called “The City of God’
In this book he goes as far as to say “Rome has replaced Jerusalem”