Lord come and wage war with the sword of Your mouth.

I’ve spent a lot my Bible reading over the past year increasing my understanding of the prophecies in the book of Daniel most notably Daniel 8:17 “it pertains to the time of the end’ -- as does my studies in Revelation.

I believe we are in the “end times” but there is a lot that has to happen before “the Great Day of the Lord” and also before “the seven year tribulation”. Will these things happen in the next three, thirty or three hundred years? I don’t know - probably not three hundred.

I believe the letters to the seven churches in Revelation is where we find ourselves now and they are important to study and understand.

Revelation 1:3 “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.”

reads aloud = anaginóskó: to know certainly, know again, read

Taking them as a whole all seven letters, what teachings are NOT found in them?

·        Common grace  
·        Church government
·        Wealth management

What are the common themes?

·        Hearing the Spirit
·        Repentance
·        Purity
·        Victory
·        Consequence and Reward
·        Urgency of time

Who/what are the enemies?

·        Nicolaitans – Ephesus and Pergamum
·        False teachers
·        Satan
·        Jezebel - Thyatira
·        Fear - Smyrna
·        False security and self-reliance – Ephesus, Sardis and Laodicea  

Explained in the letters to Pergamum and Thyatira, the teaching of Balaam, the teaching of the Nicolaitans and Jezebel who by her teaching misleads are all defined as leading to sexual immorality.

Sexual immorality is the largest tool of the enemy. It leads to a progression of evils “the so-called deep things of Satan”.

Repentance and purity is the victory.

The largest tool of Christ is the “sword of His mouth”.

Praying the sword of His mouth is how we overcome.  

Lord come and wage war with the sword of Your mouth.