The Dead Church



Rev 3:1



"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write,



'These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead…



The Church of Sardis represents a period of time beginning A.D. 1520 and lasts until the coming of the Kingdom.



The word Sardis means “remnant”. As we will see, there is a remnant in Sardis which will be counseled…

The Corrupt Church



Revelation 2:18a

"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write,

The Church of Thyatira represents a period of time from A.D. 600 to A.D. 1520, though many believe that this church exists today.

Revelation 2:18

'These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass.

Of all the descriptions Jesus introduces Himself with, this is the only time He identifies Himself as the "Son of God". If He…

The Compromising Church

Rev 2:12

"And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write,

'These things says He who has the sharp two-edged sword:

The Church of Pergamos represents a period from A.D. 312 to A.D. 600.

Pergamos, having two meanings is ultimately a church of compromise. According to Jon Courson's Application Commentary, The Greek prefix per, seen in words like "per-vert," means opposition.…

The Persecuted Church

Revelation 2:8

"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write,

'These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and came to life:

The Church of Smyrna represents a period from A.D. 100 to A.D. 312.

Jesus, referring to Himself as the First and the Last, is claiming Himself as God! (Is 41:4, 44:6) The Trinity rears It's beautiful…

My Father, Don to his mother, John to the world, and Jack to his close friends and family, was a brilliant man! A graduate of Stanford University, he was an electronic engineer with a passion for

communications. In the 1950’s and 60’s he was known in some circles as

the "Father of Broad Band Radio" for his early work in communications and the space program.

As so often happens in life, my parents divorced when I was all of…

In the next two chapters we find John poised and ready, pen in hand, to take down all of the words Jesus will now speak to him regarding the seven churches of Asia Minor. The Church of Ephesus, the Church of Smyrna, the Church of Pergamum, the Church of Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea. These seven churches represent much more than a postal route for the purpose of disseminating information throughout Asia, but are particularly meaningful to John as he ministered in each of them.…

Rev 1:12-20



12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; 16 He had…

Revelation 1:1-2



1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants — things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw.



As the Book of Revelation opens, I am reminded that all knowledge comes exclusively from the Father, as illustrated in verse 1; The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God…

I believe the Book of Revelation to be the most incredible book ever written! We find ourselves in the company of the sole surviving disciple "whom Jesus loved". After a failed attempt to, according to tradition, boil John alive, the

Emperor Domitian, a crazed madman who has now launched a second wave of

persecution against Christians for refusing to acknowledge him as a god, has

banished John to the island of Patmos. Now, a prisoner on this God-forsaken rock

off the…