Revelation Letters to the Churches / BIBLE FINAL

Ephesus

Pro: Rejected false teachers

Cons: Lost their first love

Smyrna

Pros: Endured persecution

Con: Nothing

Perganum

Pros: Endured Suffering even in a difficult place
Cons: Some held false teaching

Thyatira

Pros: Growing in faith and good works

Cons: Tolerating sexual immorality

Sardis

Pros: A faithful few

Cons: Hypocrisy

Philadelphia

Pros: Faithful though powerless
Cons: Nothing

Laodicea

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Luke-warm

Empower during Revelation Writing (81-96AD)

Domitian

Revelation Key Themes:

The victory of Christ,

Renewal of creation,

Faithfulness in the midst of suffering,

The beast from the land could have represented what?

Political powers or authority

The ancient word for Revelation i s

“Apokalupsis”

Who do the Catholics claim the woman clothed with sun was?

Mary

What happens to Babylon the Harlet?

She is destroyed, and the beast she was riding was cast into the lake of fire.

John says the result of our fellowship with God is

“Fullness of joy”