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Jesus once again
is confirming to His chosen ones in Thyatira, “I know what is going on, your
absolutely correct, it isn’t right and I will cause you to hold fast.” Yet to
the false leaders, they will read this letter as if they have to hold fast,
through their own human strength. They will teach on it, placing all of the
burden on their congregations, telling them the works that they must do to
satisfy Jesus. But for the true chosen ones, the Holy Spirit will remind them
of His Truth, that He is the One keeping them until the day of their
redemption.
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Consider the
churches today, homosexuals are allowed in leadership, men who have been
divorced, people who are constantly taking about money, arrogant people, prideful
people, people and families who do not even begin to meet the definitions of 1
Timothy. Jesus is not the focus in so many fellowships, there are false
teachings and people are being abused by it.
·
It gets clearer
and clearer, these seven churches are not church ages, but church styles. These
church styles are not the true body of Christ, they are not true chosen
believers. True believers are always kept by God, sealed with the Holy Spirit,
and Shepherded by Jesus. We cannot lose our first love, because we have become
one with Him. We cannot have false teachings overtake us, our Father prunes
them out, Jesus refines them out, and the Holy Spirit causes us to remember the
Truth, because we now have the mind of Christ!
26 And he who overcomes (is victorious) and who obeys My
commands to the [very] end [doing the works that please Me], I will give him
authority and power over the nations;
27 And he shall rule them with a sceptre (rod) of iron,
as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, and [his power over them shall be]
like that which I Myself have received from My Father;
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Look at what our
future is, we rule the nations right along with our Lord Jesus. There is no
maybe here, because we have our Father’s Spirit within us, causing us to walk
in His ways, we will rule along with Jesus. Through Christ we are more than
victorious, we are one with His power and His authority and we will serve the
people as Jesus serves them.
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These verses
provide us with just a little glimpse, a foreshadowing, of what Jesus will declare
to us later in His Revelation. Our present and our future with Jesus is Great!
During the Great Tribulation we will see how powerfully Jesus uses His true
church, we will see how we are used during His millennial reign, and then Jesus
will show us how we are one with Him for the rest of eternity. The Truth of our
salvation is that we are gloriously used to serve others from the moment that
our Father calls us to be used! We are one with Jesus, and the part that our
Father has Jesus play on this earth, we are directly involved with, because we
are one with Him. Jesus never leaves us or forsakes us. Our heritage and future
are absolutely victorious!
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Notice here that
we will rule the nations. So there must be nations still around after Jesus
returns for us to rule.
28 And I will give him the Morning Star.
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The Morning Star
is Jesus
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Jesus gives us
Himself and He ever lives to serve us so that we are saved to the uttermost.
29 He who is able to hear, let him listen to and
heed what the [Holy] Spirit says to the assemblies (churches).
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We are able to hear only because our
Father has called and empowered us with His Spirit to hear. There will be many
who try and tell us that we can’t hear everything that our Father has to say,
they are wrong! There will be many who shy away from the Book of Revelation,
don’t follow them. We are one with Jesus and He is far greater within us than
anything that is in this world. Read and listen to this Book being read out
loud, there is a special blessing in doing so!
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