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THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA /REVELATION 2 - 3

Copyright November 20, 2007

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CHAPTER 1 (5 of 9) 

EXPLANATIONS AND CAUSES

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Oil is a biblical symbol of the Holy Spirit. The five foolish virgins are those who have a form of godliness, religious sinners not those who are truly born-again, who whether aware or unaware, realizing something is not right in their relationship with God, try to pull the five wise virgins down to their level of spirit poverty, but the wise did not fall for it. The foolish virgins do not know what it is to be ONE with God, to fellowship with Him, or to be filled with the power and gifts of His Holy Spirit. The foolish virgins do not know what it is to fight with demonic powers.  Without the power of the Holy Spirit in our life we cannot become One with God, obey Him to the degree He desires of us, or hear His voice telling them what to do and/or say from one moment to the next. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God, Romans 8:14.

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The foolish virgins because they are neither truly born again nor have God's Spirit dwelling in them had no oil; these are Religious Sinners, those who went through the motion of repentance without receiving God’s new birth, and as a result did not cultivate an intimate relationship with the bridegroom, thereby causing them to have no oil, which when He comes their lamp would not light. It is to the shame of the wise virgins that they had also allowed their flame to go out and as did the foolish virgins they also slept, but it was only to their credit that they still had oil and were able to light their lamp again. 

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Many of us, who are filled with the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit, living out our life with Christ caught up in the affairs of this life to the point that the lack of "meaningful time" we need to spend with God causes our relationship with Him to stagnate [liken to that of slumber] rather than be consistently developing into a deeper and more passionate love affair with Him. This is what was happening to the Christians in the church of Ephesus, their time was caught up in the affairs of ministry to the neglect of the necessary preparation of intimacy and time with Him through fasting, prayer, and worship.

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We are responsible for our flame; making time to spend with Him should always be our priority, not our temporal responsibilities of life. God knows we have temporal responsibilities. We all have been created with various types of talents and abilities, many of which will never be brought to full fruition unless we are totally surrendered to God’s perfect will for our life.  God wants us to always be in a spiritual state of readiness to change our plans so that when He speaks to us we immediately do as He says. Foolish virgins are not in a “spiritual state of readiness” only the wise virgins are. While God has afforded our every waking moment to glorify Him called Chronos, He has special moments in time call Kairos when He wants to use us for a significant God Moment in someone’s life.

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But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.  You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. (1 Thessalonians 5:4-8)

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Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. (2 Timothy 4:2)

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These are the days of Revival when God is waking up those in the church, who are among the wise virgins, to rekindle an intimate relationship with the One who loves them; I call this rising up to "Revival Status."  It behooves us who have God’s Baptism with the Holy Spirit to encourage ALL born-again believers, who do not have His power and gifts in their life, to receive God’s Baptism with the Holy Spirit; Power, “glossolalia” [tongues], and nine charismata (Gifts). God uses the Baptism with His Spirit to take us deeper and more intimate with Him than we would without this Baptism.

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How important is intimacy with God?  It appears from the parable of the foolish and wise virgins there is significance to it of being worthy or not to enter into the marriage; receive eternal life.  Jesus said: Verily I say unto you, I know you not.  The statement Watch therefore means, being vigilant and active, and as Jude 1:3 says using the Greek "agonizing with Fervent Zeal, to keep our lamps burning not to let the flame go out; cultivating a passionate love relationship with Him is watching. It is obvious to me that God's primary love language is meaningful time.

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To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil; - But glory, honor, and peace to every man that works good.  (Romans 2:7-10)

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My Facebook Timeline - www.facebook.com/samuelsiders1 - contains responses I have posted in answer to those who God has had me to share with for over seventeen years on Facebook Forums created to share the Scriptures. My activity about sharing the Word of God with Muslims, other false Cults, and with those who profess to be Christian continues; this open door that the Lord has made available to me as an Apologist/Teacher is one where worldwide opportunities are made available to all English speaking people around the world from many different countries, races, and religious beliefs. 

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It is WRITTEN in 1 Peter 3:15 … “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" God wants us to know AND understand His Word (2 Timothy 2:15), “Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” Jude 3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend [Gr. agonize with fervent zeal] for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”
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This past week I had a conversation with a man name Bill who refused to believe Apostle John taught Jesus is Logos in John 1:1-18, and thereby did not deny he had fallen prey to the deceptions that Arius of the fourth century taught against Jesus being Logos when I accused he had. What follows is the last response I posted for Bill to defend against his deception:

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Bill L ... you obviously have No ability to comprehend that Apostle John taught Jesus is sentient Logos, and if you think Almighty God cannot make His verbiage sentient, you are Not serving the same Almighty God that I am, and which John and Paul served.

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Again, the Rabbinic theology for Memra makes it clear Memra is a separate identity from Almighty God who spoke those words having been - Sent forth - by Almighty God to DO what His Words were Sent to do, as written in Isaiah 55:11; therefore, for God's Words to be - Sent - to do something and do it thereby makes His words a separate identity who also will not Return to Him void but accomplish what they were Sent to do just like Prophets and Jesus did.

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Apostle John taught Jesus is that "separate identity," and Arians as well as the Gnostics Refused to believe John's Christology about Jesus, to the point that they went so far as to Corrupt the Alexandria Egypt manuscripts in the attempt to remove or pervert what John taught about Jesus in His Gospel and his other four books in the NT, and You keep proving You have Fallen Prey to their corruption against the True Depth of Who Jesus is IN His spirit and soul. FYI what Apostle Paul taught about Jesus' Christology in the book of Hebrews agrees with Apostle John's Christology as contained in the - Uncorrupted - Byzantine Antioch manuscripts.

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Samuel Siders 9/20/2026 [Go deep in your relationship with God not shallow.]