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That we're going to look at today.

It's probably more applicable to our time.

Then any of them maybe except laodicea, which will be the last one that we're going to study.

But really the state of the church that we the Church of our kind of reminds us of the church is in our world today and these churches.

Now remember, not only did they represent their own time and place in historical situation, but it also serves as metaphors for the church today because the same things that were happening in the first second.

Third, fourth, fifth, sixth seventh.

We see happening today.

We Face the same problems.

So, let's let me give you a little caption of what we studied so far the church in Ephesus represented.

The first century, Apostolic church, that's when the church began.

So that's what Ephesus reminds us of him.

And what was the problem with that Force us?

Well, they had lost their first Love.

So, they were so busy doing and serving and they're doing a lot of great things.

They just forgot the relationship with Christ and they were just doing it out of a sense of Duty and obligation and not a sense of love, but that was a church at Ephesus.

And then we looked at the church in Smyrna, which represented the second and third Century.

That's when Christians were going through this horrible, persecution by the Roman government.

And Smyrna was a suffering church and then last week, be looked at pergamus which represented remember we said Paramus was the compromising church.

So that represents of the compromise of the corrupted church.

That was eventually under Constantine who made Christianity, the religion of the Roman Empire and if you if you didn't get baptized or if you wouldn't Christian, he kill you and what kind of Christian would do that.

So it was a corrupt Christianity.

And that was beginning in the 4th centuries, but just remember all of these churches that I talked about, I mentioned the bad thing, but everything wasn't bad Christ.

Had a lot of good things to say about him.

I had a lot of strengths and so I think when we look at the church today, we can see same strengths and weaknesses.

Also will today, we are going to the fourth church and that is the church at 5 attire attire and it suffered from something that I think that is very real today in our churches.

So let's look at Revelation Chapter 2 and we're going to read starting verse 18 all the way down to verse 29.

This may have been the most

I don't want to say it relevant but one of the minor churches that the letters were written to it, it really wasn't a big city or anything.

So it'd be kind of flew under the radar but it's the longest letter to the seven churches.

And so let's read and see what the Lord says about this church and the angel and to the angel of the Church of fire tower, right?

This thing says the Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brass.

I know your Works.

Love service Faith.

Good thanks.

And your patience.

And as for your works, the last or more than the first, we'll talk about that a little later.

All that is good.

Marceline Mo my goodness.

You never want to see that word.

Nevertheless because, you know, now something bad coming.

Nevertheless, I have a few things against you because you allow that woman, Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess to teach and seduce my servants to commit, sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality and she did not repent, indeed.

I will cast her into a sickbed and Those who commit adultery with her into Great Tribulation unless they repent of their deeds.

Now, watch this, I will kill her children.

Can you believe that the Lord is saying to the church to someone in the church?

I will kill her children with death.

And all the churches shall know that I am, he who searches the minds and hearts, and I will give the each one according to your works.

Now, do you I say and to the rest in 5-hour, as many as do not have this Doctrine, as many as in the church that does not follow Jezebel who have not known, the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you, no other bird butthole fast.

What you have till I come.

And he who overcomes and keeps my works until the end to him.

I will give power over the nation's and then reversed 2070 quote Psalm 29 he shall rule them with a rod of iron they shall be dashed in pieces like The Potter's vessels as I also have received from my father and I will give him the Morning Star.

The people who overcome the hold fast to the Lord, in the midst of this devilish woman Jezebel in the church.

He says, I will give you the Morningstar wonder what that is.

So I can go ahead and tell you, it's Jesus Christ, because the Bible says in revelation 22, Jesus Christ is the bright and Morning Star.

So he who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says, to the churches.

Well, today's message, I've been titled The Jezebel Church.

I mean, if you've got a child here that you named Jezebel I doubt many of you have you might you might pick Mary or you may pick Elizabeth or you made it Paul or Peter.

But you are John, but you're not going to name your child.

Jezebel not many people do, but we're going to talk more about that in just a moment.

So the Jezebel Church, well, as always, let's keep with our outline.

We've been doing, let's talk briefly about the destination Point.

Number one, the destination of the letter five Tire.

Don't have a whole lot to say about it, other than it was located in a valley between pergamus and Sardis.

It had no high wall or any type of fortification, all it had was a Roman Garrison there to protect it.

Here's what it did have.

It was a bustling Trade Center, a lot of trading going on there.

A lot of individuals with you can say personal business has a lot of money flowed through their all type of commercial Enterprises.

And even though you can probably consider it, the least important of the city's, which Christ address these letters.

Again, it received the longest letter.

So the only time 5 tire is mentioned in the bible, outside of the Book of Revelation right here is in Acts 16 and there was a lady from fonterra and her name was Lydia.

I don't know if you remember her in the Bible but she was a business woman.

It says in Acts 16 that she was a dealer of purple cloth.

So she was probably a seamstress or something like that and she traveled to Phillip I own business and there she met the Apostle Paul.

And there she met heard the gospel.

And she became a follower of Jesus and probably what happened.

She was one of the founding members of the church at Phillipi and she likely return to thyateira and with the gospel and probably helped establish the church in 5 hours.

That's the only time you'll read about fire tower in the entire Bible.

So that's the destination of the letter.

Let's look at the description number to the description of Christ.

And we see that in the second part of first 18, I look what it says.

This thing says, the Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and his feet.

Like brass, let me give you three things that this talks about here.

You see it right here, it talks about his authority, his awareness, and his anger.

So he says he has eyes, like a famous, flaming fire feet like fine brass, these traits reveals.

I believe about himself.

They are these Trace always fit to the church that he's riding too cuz he describes himself differently to every Church.

The problem in the Church of fire tire was not easily seen.

Not always in plain sight, but because he has eyes, like a flame of fire.

That means, it penetrates that God can penetrate he can look inside and know exactly what's in our hearts.

Did, you know, that?

He knows exactly what you think.

Every moment of the day he knows because he can see, and he can see it plainly and notice how he refers himself here.

These things says the son of God, That speaks of his divinity.

He's trying to tell this church.

This is God speaking.

He didn't use the son of man like it's used most of the time in the New Testament.

He says he's the son of God.

So this kind of add some serious too serious to the situation in the Son of God speaks of his deity to.

He says I have authority because I know exactly what's going on.

And then the awareness, his eyes, flame of fire already mentioned that kind of refers to his moral judgment.