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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
It is a 2 dimensional doctrine, so that only the Catholic church tolerates Jezebel, only Sardis is dead, only Laodicea is spewed out of the Lord's mouth.
So instead of having to deal with these stones in your heart (Matt 13) you can say "hey, not me, I'm not in the Catholic church" and that isn't me I left the protestant church, and I'm surely not Laodicea.
I would argue that all of these stones are present in everyone's heart.
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I definitely agree that these 7 churches are not historically sequential only.
How interesting is it that the strongest proponents of these views, including Darby, Nee, and Lee, all taught that their assemblies were the fulfillment of Philadelphia?
Has no church in the present age ever lost their first love? Do we no longer need to try the apostles? Has the church stopped suffering? Has no church ever become worldly? Not according to Nee, who taught that the prophetic fulfillment of the first three churches no longer no longer exists on earth.
Biblical "common sense" tells us that the warnings and the blessings of all seven churches are urgently needed today.