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The nicolaitans
set up a ruling class over the rest of the people. Basically teaching and
believing that everyone is not equal. Think about how Jesus acted when He was
here on the earth as a man with the people. He never had them bowing down to
Him. They called Him by His name, Jesus. He took on a servant’s towel and
washed their feet. He prayed that everything that He was would be ours as well.
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Think about how
Jesus is right now, He ever lives to intercede for us so that we might be saved
to the uttermost. Jesus hates when people try and make a select few higher or
better than others. This is happening all over religion today. Pastors are set
up way to high. Church names and buildings are elevated and worshipped. We have
bishops and popes who are proclaimed to be Christ on the earth, when the Truth
is that all who are saved are one with Christ on this earth. The thoughts and
practices of the nicolaitans are all throughout religion today and Jesus hates
it.
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Now think of the
end times when men will be lovers of self, prideful, and boastful. Place that attitude
with the attitude of the nicolaitans and how they will try to require people to
take their mark, the mark of the beast, and you will see the end time church of
the anti-christ.
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But He said, Woe to you, the lawyers, also! For you
load men with oppressive burdens
hard to bear, and you do not personally [even gently] touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11:46
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What we will study later in Revelation is that
the anti-christ will set up all kinds of laws. This will be anti-christ because
people will be trying to serve God by what they do, not hwat He is doing
through them. This is why he is called anti-christ, not anti-jesus. Christ is
our Father’s power working through us. Law’s take the focus from our Father and
place it on something other than Christ.
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