Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt
The call to Pergamos is this: Repent or else the Lord will come quickly and make war with the sword of His mouth.
Connecting the Dots?
Is anybody starting to connect the dots here? If not, I'll take a stab at it pretty soon, but I think we should get a reminder of the 'doctrines of the Nicolaitans'.
What were the 'children (young people in the Lord in the 60's/70's) of the LC' enticed with?
Matt
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Matt:
I don't have any dot-connecting to do just yet, but I do have a preliminary question regarding Revelation 2.
I find it interesting that in the letter to Pergamos, the Spirit holds the
entire church accountable even though it is only "
some who hold to the doctrine of Balaam" and only "
some who in the same way hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans." The call, nevertheless, is for the
whole church to repent for the beliefs of the
some.
But even more interesting is the contrast with the letter to Thyatira. I really don't know why Thyatira is said to "tolerate" Jezabell - rather than accusing them of the same thing as Pergamos - holding to the teaching of Nicolaitans. It seems their error is identical: eating things sacrificed to idols and committing act of immorality. Yet the "source" or reason for each is different: teaching of Balaam in Pergamos and Jezabel in Thyatira.
And even yet more interesting, in Thyatira, it is
not the
whole church which is held accountable for the acts of the few. Verse 24:
'But I say to you, the rest who are in (BK)Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them--I place no other burden on you.
Why is the whole church responsible for the beliefs of some in Pergamos, but not in Thyatira? And why is one said to hold to the teachings of Balaam and the other said to be enticed by Jezabel, when their outward acts are the same? Unless their beliefs are literally based on Balaam/Nicolaitans and Jezable, respectively - why use one analogy for one and another analogy for the other, when their error seems the same? And why the different consequences for the churches?
Peter