Sermon Tone Analysis

Revelation 2:18-29

Prayer

I. Introduction

II.

Background

Revelation 2 & 3

Letters to the Churches

Introduction

Commendation

Rebuke

Exhortation

Promise

3 ways to read these Letters

Periodically - in their actual contexts.

There are real people

Prophetically- see diff church ages

Parentally- see across the globe at any time

Thyatira

Smallest city

Longest letter

Apollo

Trade guilds - IMPORTANT

Revelation 2:18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

INTRODUCTION - Son of God

Only time in Revelation

His eyes being “like blazing fire” and the brilliant reflections of His feet emphasize the indignation and righteous judgment of Christ.

John 5:19-23:

The eyes of Christ-like a fiery flame that can look through you.

No hiding from Jesus.

Feet like fine bronze- firmly planted.

COMMENDATION:

works

love

faithfulness

Service

last better than first.

Opposite that of Ephesus

REBUKE - Revelation 2:220-23

III.

Who is Jezebel?

A. Jezebel in the Rev.

False prophetess

Mark 13:22

22 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.

23 But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand.

Sexual immorality

Idolater (food sacrificed to idols)

Has had time to repent

B. Jezebel in the OT

1 & 2 Kings

Wife of Ahab

Ahab

1. Princess, high-priestess

2. Idolater (Baal and Asherah)

3. Led Israel into polytheism

4. Seductress

5. Murderer of the prophets

Elijah

Prophesies a drought

Flies in the face of Baal

Jehu

Kills Jezebel

Eunuchs actually kill her

C. Spirit of Jezebel in America today

1. Idolatry in America

Families

Sports

Stuff

2. Sexual seduction

Porn

Stats from Michael Brown’s book Brown, Michael L.. Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide.

Charisma House.

Kindle Edition.

Just consider how this generation has been flooded with porn: • “Porn sites receive more regular traffic than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined each month.”

• “35% of all internet downloads are porn-related.”

• “34% of internet users have been exposed to unwanted porn via ads, pop-ups, etc.” • “People who admit to having extramarital affairs were over 300% more likely to admit consuming porn than those who have never had an affair.”

• “At least 30% of all data transferred across the internet is porn-related.” 1

To put this in context, in December 2017 it was reported that an average of 197 million users visited Amazon.com and 127 million visited Walmart.com each month. 2 Yet a leading pornography site draws 125 million visitors per day, with roughly 5 million adult videos uploaded to the site in 2018 alone—enough for 115 years of continual viewing.

According to recent data, 90% of young men age 18 have been exposed to pornography—much ofwhich is hard-core (meaning it often involves violence and overtly explicit imagery).

Of the 90%, the average age these young men were sexualized by pornography was between 8–11 years old.

Similarly, 60% of young women by the age of 18 have been exposed to porn as well.

Almost 80% of this exposure, which isn’t always voluntary, is happening in the perceived safety of their homes.

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• Eight-year-olds are being exposed to hard-core pornography.

• Children as young as ten are learning [in their schools!] the relative health risks of anal vs. oral vs. vaginal intercourse.

• Thirteen-year-olds are sexting each other, sometimes committing suicide when their naked pictures circulate through their school.

• Condoms have been made available to first graders.

(What, pray tell, does a six-year-old child do with a condom?)

• Healthy men in their twenties cannot perform without Viagra because of their porn addictions.

Married couples in their twenties no longer have sex because it has become so meaningless to them.

some 40 studies link porn use to poorer cognitive function and mental health problems.”

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It is estimated that worldwide roughly one million children are sold into sex slavery or forced labor every year, including forty thousand per year in America, which amounts to 109 children per day.

Gay revolution & Transgender movement

What is a Woman?

Supreme Court Justice cannot define a woman

Yet they say you can call yourself a woman no matter what biological gender God made you as.

Ideology being pushed in schools

Families removed from the decision making and kept in the dark about transitions

Tonsillectomy vs. gender reasignment

3. Baby killing

Stats on abortion from Brown’s book (Brown, Michael L.. Jezebel's War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide (p.