Food For Thought...

There are millions of Christians who busy themselves reading and studying the last book of the Bible...the Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ...

They read it thinking that John was speaking of things thousands of years in the future...things that are speaking about events that are happening today...

Unfortunately...many of these Christians ignore the first three verses of the book which say:

The 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, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

Look to the places I have written in bold letters. The Book of Revelations was written telling the things which must shortly take place...for the time is near!

This doesn't mean that we thousands of years later can't learn from this book...because we certainly can!

What I want us to see, is that in the first 3 chapters of the book...Jesus is speaking to the 7 churches which are in Asia...

Jesus is pointing out that these churches has some good qualities...but He is also pointing out their sin...and He is warning them...that if they do NOT repent...then Jesus Himself is going to cause them to cease to exist...

Did they listen to Jesus...by the way...this is a lesson we can learn today?

These churches were located today in the country we know as Turkey...as strong hold for Islam...

These churches did not repent...they continued in their unbelief...their disobedience and rebellion...expecting that God would never discipline them...

They were wrong...and so are we if we have their mindset...