The seven Churches are miniature pictures of seven Church Ages

In today's Blog (before I get into it) I'd like to pour my heart a little bit. For the past 10 days I've been doing a roof project at my residence that has been going up and down so to speak. As I delved into this venture and a very small corner of the business world of sub-contracting God warned and halted this writer with great admonition. I sought God's face and directive as He ministered to this writer's heart. Today as I write these words, I understood God's admonition as "all" my subjection lies in Him. He let me know a few things in the past 24 hours and here's a few examples of what He let me know. Don't gamble...don't get wrapped up in politics...don't get wrapped up in the business world...and thus He showed me why? He let me know these matters and conditions of life...could cost me my Salvation. So after realizing God's Divine influence I understood from Him,"Don't do it son!" A great lesson for this writer and much was learned concerning my hope and future plans in Christ. He called me to do His work...so that I must do! In the midst of all the ups and downs in life this writer in subjection to God concludes with the following verse ...

1 John 2:15-17...Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Now that's off my heart...here's today's blog from the book of Revelation.


The seven Churches are miniature pictures of seven Church Ages.

Ephesus,  left their first love - AD 100.

From the First Century Church to the Third Century you will find deviation from the early Apostle’s doctrine of Grace. Likewise men deviated from a consciousness to the Holy Spirit’s work and presence as taught in the Epistles. Water Baptism in all various modes for many various reasons became rampant for centuries. This plague is still in effect today. The teachings of Sanctification through the Spirit have dwindled. “Dead works” prevailed. Regardless of the doctrines of men the Body of Christ still existed through the Ages.

Smyrna… that Age ranged from 100-312 AD

During these years Roman governments were ruled by Caesars (212 years).  Jewish insurrections and political ties were strongly linked to the Religious world. On the Gentile side philosophies and pagan religious worship crept in. Jewish Law and Gentile Philosophy mixed with Grace. Grace alone in the Body of Christ was gradually becoming tainted. Papal supremacy which began at Constantine ruled for centuries. The Church still existed through this Age.

Pergamum means joined in marriage …that Age ranged from 312-590 AD

During these centuries you had the origin of priestly worship called the “Nicolatians”. Plain religion mixed with a Jezebel spirit subtly seduced men into religious worship and politics rather the Grace of God through faith in Christ alone. The Body of Christ still existed through this Age. The Word of God was written and preserved in Latin. Priestly worship, politics, and religion permitted crusades, wars, and dominance throughout Europe and that side of the earth for centuries. This continued through the Dark Ages as the Body of Christ still existed through that Age.

Thyatira allowed Jezebel to seduce …That Age ranged from 590-1517 AD

Then you had Reformation where men began to protest the Roman Church and its religious teachings. There English translations of the Word of God were made. The Protestant reformation existed for years where the King James Version of the Bible in English was introduced. The Body of Christ still existed.

This was the Church Age of Sardis …That Age ranged from 1517-1750 AD

After the Reformation you had an awakening that swept the world for three centuries. During this awakening God used mighty men of God to preach revival throughout Europe and it's continents all the way to the United States where revival likewise swept the U.S. with the power and presence of the Holy Ghost. One prevalent move during those years was the Azuza Street Revival that became a great testimony for Christ in the 1900’s.

Philadelphia in John’s Revelation was the only perfect Church …That Age ranged from 1750-1925 AD

The Seven Churches of John were actual Churches at that time however; those seven Churches also “revealed” the religious and political conditions that existed through the Ages until now.

We are presently in the seventh Age, which is the Church of Laodicia. 1925-to present.

Unfortunately this Church Age is neither hot nor cold it’s “lukewarm”. This lukewarm state is obvious for anyone who knows Christ to see; “Just look around”. This self-sufficient lukewarm religious condition at present  makes God sick enough to vomit.

· Rev 3:16-17…So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

The Revelation of Christ in chapters 1-3 deals with miniature pictures of conditions that took place in the Seven Church Ages. In Chapter Four of Revelation the Spirit of God took John up to Heaven, away from future catastrophic conditions and revealed to John what it will be like, hereafter. Hereafter what? …The closing of this Laodician Age where the entire body of Christ is caught up to meet with Christ in the air. The Hindering work of the Holy Spirit steps aside and the Wrath and Judgment seat from an Almighty God begins. Our present Church age is moving toward this closing where the Rapture of the Church will be a believer’s only escape from Christ’s future Wrath and Judgment where the Anti-Christ steps in. The closing of this Age is described in the following verse when John says, “After this”.

· Rev 4:1…After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

First words…after this (present conditions of the lukewarm Laodician Age).

Secondly…come up hither (dead in Christ and those alive being caught up in the Rapture).

Third…I will show you things hereafter (Hereafter what?)…The Rapture. What takes place on Earth after the Church is removed. Mercy is gone. The Omnipresence of the Holy Spirit as we know it in the Church …is gone. Then come’s the seals, vials, trumps, and the woes through the Wrath of the Lamb and the Judgment seat of Christ.

The Revelation of Christ in the Rapture shows how God is going to deliver His Church the Bride from a predicted devastation, Wrath, and Judgment. That deliverance is only a glimpse of God calling out His saints in the Rapture and taking them to refuge in Heaven before the Anti-Christ and works of Satan begin on the earth. Revelation thus describes Tribulation, Wrath, and Judgment on the Earth BUT!!! All this takes place “after” the Rapture of the Church.