- Eyes like a flame of fire, feet like bronze
- He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars
- Holy, true, opens and - Kept His Word, not shuts but no one can denied His name overrule - The Amen, the faithful - None mentioned!!! and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God
Thyatira (2:18-29)
Sardis (3:1-6)
Philadelphia (3:7-13)
Laodicea (3:14-22)
- Has the sharp, twoedged sword
Pergamum (2:12-17)
- Love, faith, service, perseverance, present works greater than first works - A few have not soiled their garments, they walk with Him in white
- The first and the last - Was dead and is alive
Smyrna (2:8-11)
Good Works - Labor - Patience - Intolerance of evil - Discernment of leadership - Endurance of tribulation, poverty and blasphemy - Faithful to His Name - Not denied His faith - One martyred for Christ
Description of Deity - Holds the seven stars in His right hand - Walks in the midst of the candlesticks
Specific Church Ephesus (2:1-7)
Revelation 2-3
- God will overthrow the woman and her children and punish the guilty people - Repent – 2x - Be watchful; strengthen the things that remain; remember what you have received; keep it & repent - Hold fast what you have
- Don’t fear the tribulation, be faithful unto death, there is a reward coming - Repent
Exhortations - Remember from where you have fallen - Repent and do the first works
- Lukewarm; blind to - Buy what is needed from Me! He is knocking at the door. their sin problems Let Him in! Repent!
- None mentioned
- Some hold to false doctrine - Some teach false doctrine - Tolerates the woman Jezebel, who led people into immorality - Have a name that they are alive, but are dead
- None mentioned
Problems - They left their first love
The Letters to the Seven Churches in Revelation