Where are we going… where have we been?

Ecclesiastes 3: “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.”Ecclesiastes 3: “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.”

 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.

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

-“Growing Out and Growing Up” - “Bearing and Baring” - “Right Rave and Left Love” - “Hype and Hypocrisy” - “History and His Story” - “Acts and Actions” - “Revealed and Revealing” - “Fully Purposed and Fully Positioned” - “Exposed and Exposure”  Ephesu s

W here are we going … where have we been? - “Blessings and Cursings” - “Blind and Seeing” - “Nothing and Everything” - “Seed and Situation” - “Cost and Cause” - “Information and Informed”  Smyrna

Pagan Rome

W here are we going … where have we been? - “Eclipsed and Entangled” - “Christianized and Paganized” - “Sword Smitten and Against All” - “Devil and Doctrine”  Pergam os

 Ephes us A.D.  Smyrn a A.D.  Pergam os A.D.  Thyatira A.D.

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

W here are we going … where have we been? - “Odor and Order” - “Last and First”  Thyatira

Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion Correction Challenge Call  Thyatira

Commission  Thyatira- “Odor of Affliction” The name “Thyatira”The name “Thyatira” (Continual/Sacrifice )

Commissio n Character  Thyatira “Eyes as flames of Fire”“Eyes as flames of Fire” “Feet like Fine Brass”“Feet like Fine Brass” “The Son of God”“The Son of God”

Commissio n Character Commenda tion  Thyatir a “Thy Charity”“Thy Charity” “Thy Service”“Thy Service” “Thy Works”“Thy Works” “Thy Faith”“Thy Faith” “Thy Patience”“Thy Patience” “I know”…

“Fornicated and Fallen” Where are we going… where have we been?  Thyatira

Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion  Thyatira

“Committing Idolatry”“Committing Idolatry” “Committing Fornication”“Committing Fornication” Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion

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 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.”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.”

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 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”.1st Corinthians 7:2- “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband”.

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

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

Proverbs 2:16 – “To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words”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 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.”Proverbs 7:5 – “That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.”

Hebrews 4: “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.”

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.”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”.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”.

The Book Of Judges

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.”

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

Rome sits on seven mountains.

Rome will be in power! (Rev. 17)

Dan shall be a serpentGenesis 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.” Dan is a lion's whelpDeuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan

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?”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”1st Peter 5:8 – “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”

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.”

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

He scattered the people He confounde d their language.

jezebel

jezebel  “Baal exalts”  “Baal is husban d to”

King Ahab

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.”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.”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.”

King Ahab

jezebel

 Thyatira “Committing Idolatry”“Committing Idolatry” “Committing Fornication”“Committing Fornication” Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion

jezebel  “Baal exalts”  “Baal is husban d to”

Rome will be in power! (Rev. 17)

2nd Corinthians 11:4 – “For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

2nd Corinthians 11:13 – “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.”

Acts 20:27 – “For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.”Acts 20:27 – “For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.”

 Thyatira “The Space of Repentance”“The Space of Repentance” Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion

W here are we going … where have we been? - “Eclipsed and Entangled” - “Christianized and Paganized” - “Sword Smitten and Against All” - “Devil and Doctrine”  Pergam os

 Ephes us A.D.  Smyrn a A.D.  Pergam os A.D.  Thyatira A.D.

 Thyatira “The Certainty of Judgment”“The Certainty of Judgment” Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion

 Thyatira “The Certainty of Judgment”“The Certainty of Judgment” Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion  FUTURISTIC Fulfillment

2nd Kings 9:33 – “And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.”2nd Kings 9:33 – “And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.” 2nd Kings 9:35 – “And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.”2nd Kings 9:35 – “And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.”

Revelation 14:8 – “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”Revelation 14:8 – “And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”

 Thyatira “The Certainty of Judgment”“The Certainty of Judgment” Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion  FUTURISTIC Fulfillment

 Thyatira “The Certainty of Judgment”“The Certainty of Judgment” Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion  HISTORICAL Fulfillment

Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion Correction  Thyatira “Except they repent of their deeds”“Except they repent of their deeds”

Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion Correction Challenge  Thyatira

Revelation 19:15 “And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”

Revelation 22:16- “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”  Judgment and Destruction

Commissio n Character Commenda tion Condemnat ion Correction Challenge Call  Thyatira

Where are we going… where have we been?