Revelation 2-3: The Letters

 

Revelation 2-3,

The Letters to the Messengers of

 the Seven Churches

In the beginning, there is first the work of the lamp of the seven stars(messengers) that prepares the way like at the time of the first coming(Rev 1:12, 16, 20). at this time, Satan's Nicolaitans (Rev 2:15), like the Pharisee pastors of Satan's group at the first coming, invade the tabernacle of the seven stars. Satan's pastor who invades deceives the servants (messengers) and congregation members of the tabernacle and makes them to eat teachings and food sacrificed to idols, just like Satan did to Eve at the time of Adam, and misleads them to commit acts of immorality with the spirit of Satan.

When this happens, Jesus chooses one pastor to send letters that urges repentance to the seven stars of the tabernacle. The letter is about "Repent, and fight and overcome Satan's invading pastor, the Nicolaitans. If you overcome, I will give you the thins(blessings) promised in Revelation 2 & 3." This is the promise, and the one who keeps this promise is the promised pastor.




"Repent, and fight and overcome satan's invading pastor, the Nicolaitans.
If you overcome, I will give you the things(blessings) promised in Revelation 2 and 3."

Reference : Revelation 1:2, Revelation 1:11, Revelation 22:16

• who testifies to everything he saw--that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.(Rev 1:2)
• which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea."(Rev 1:11)
• "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star." (Rev 22:16)

In Revelation 2 and 3, the Promised Pastor wrote and sent to the pastors of the seven churches (Rev 1:20) the letters that urged repentance by Jesus' orders like in Revelation 1:11.

Q) Have they repented after receiving this letter that urged repentance?                  
-The answer is in Revelation 9:21.

※ Since the letters in Rev 2-3 were written as a result of a revelation through vision, they are different from the epistles. When John recorded Revelation, the seven churches in Asia Minor never received the letters in Rev 2-3 from John. When Revelation is fulfilled, those letters are given to the seven messengers of the tabernacle of the covenant, which is symbolized by the seven churches of Asia Minor. These events of Rev2-3, including the delivery of the letters, have already taken place at the base of Cheonggye mountain, which is the city of Gwacheon, Gyeonggi province, Republic of Korea.

 <<"What is the list of blessings Jesus promised in Rev2-3 to the promised pastor who fights and overcomes the Nicolaitans?">> continued from https://shincheonjiaroma.blogspot.kr/2018/01/shincheonji-revelation-study-rev-314-22.html
 

• The blessings promised to the one who overcomes

The following is a list of blessings Jesus promises in Rev 2-3 to the promised pastor who fights and overcomes the Nicoleaitans:

*The fruit of the tree of life in the paradise of God

*The crown of life,  will not be hurt at all by the second death

*The hidden manna, the white stone

*The iron scepter to rule over the nations, the morning star

*White clothes, his name will never be blotted out from the book of life, his name will be acknowledged before God and his angels

*Will become a pillar in the temple of God, and will receive the name of God, the name of the holy city, New Jerusalem and Jesus' new name 

 *The to right sit with God and Jesus on their throne

These promised blessings make it clear the one who overcomes receives heaven and the food of eternal life. Without learning from him, no one can receive heaven or eternal life. If the 39 books of the Old Testament testify about one person in Jesus (Jn 5:39), it is no exaggeration to say the 27 books of the New Testament testify about the one who overcomes. No matter how carefully we read the Bible, our efforts are futile if we cannot find the one who overcomes. Because a walk in faith, in other words, religion is form heaven. He, promised pastor ate the reveled book form heaven in Revelation 10. And then Jesus sent him to churches to testify to this fulfillment in Revelation 22:16.

God fulfilled His covenant with the Old Testament prophets through Jesus(Jn 19:30 => Jesus said, "It is finished.").
God fulfills what Jesus promised to his disciples(Matthew 24, Revelation 1-22) in today's world. Witnessing the fulfillment of a promise by the one who made it and believing in this fulfillment marks the true faith of those who believe (refer to Jn 14:29). God fulfills what He promised, and believers believe when this promise is fulfilled. This is the covenant between the one who made the promise and those who believe in this promise.

Today, as written in Revelation 22:16, the one who was sent to the churches and was ordered to proclaim what he saw and heard, the messenger of Jesus - the promised pastor - has come. Like in Revelation 2 and 3, he wrote to the pastors of the seven churches by Jesus' orders; just as in Revelation 10. he received and ate the open scroll from Heaven and received orders; and as in Revelation 22:8, he saw and heard the fulfillment of every event in the book of Revelation.

Shincheonji has the one who has received the open book in Revelation chapter 10. This is the one who has written letters in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, and who is the messenger sent by Jesus in Revelation chapter 22 verse 16.