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THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA /REVELATION 2 - 3

Copyright November 20, 2007

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CHAPTER 1 (2 of 9) 

EXPLANATIONS AND CAUSES

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In 1981 I was given a book to read that was authored by Loran Helm A Voice in the Wilderness, an autobiography with the primary focus on the work God had done in him to bring him to the place of total obedience to God's expectations for him. When God said to do something Loran did it. With God's help Loran was faithful to obey everything God told him to the day of his departure from this life; preaching the message of obedience to God, and his prayer for worldwide revival.

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In 1982 the Lord took me into a place of fellowship with Him that very few Christians throughout the ages have ever gone. During the course of the nine months that God took me through He showed me that 90 percent more or less of the true born again believers have no idea of what it is to walk in heavenly places in Christ Jesus; in the Holy Spirit. With the help of the Holy Spirit we are given the resident power to overcome the sinful nature that is bound in our flesh that compels us to disobey God; Apostle Paul call this a "war" (Romans 2:22-25).

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Satan found the Achilles’ heel of the Church, concerning obedience, and has been viciously beating it. The Achilles’ heel is ignorance concerning the life of Christ in the Holy Spirit that God requires us to live. God has not left His church without a voice. For those who seek to know Him more, "deep calling unto deep" for the place of fellowship and oneness with Him, God is taking us there, so that those who yield to Him, He would take to that place of fellowship and oneness with Him so we could share about the deeper relationship with others.

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As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God - Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterspouts. (Psalms 42:1 and 7a)

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My disappointment has been that this message is so far above the majority in the church that they struggle to comprehend the simplicity of it. I have heard this statement, "ignorance is bliss" spoken by a person who was about to betray his friends. Concerning spiritual truth, ignorance could cost us the salvation of our soul. Jesus said, if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin (John 15:22). Those of us who hunger and thirst after righteousness will be filled; this is true for those who hunger to know ALL about God, His secrets, and mysteries.

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God will reveal Himself, even His secrets and hidden mysteries to those who hunger. If we are not hungry to go deeper more intimate with Him, God will not reveal all things and Himself to us; GET HUNGRY!

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One constant in all of the seven churches of Asia Minor is the false and true believers. Each church has the spectators and the participators, the spectators of God's perfect will create trouble, the doers of God's perfect will do not. It is because of the true believers in the seven churches that God is sending a message of warning that encompasses God's reward, and judgment punishment.

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God has heard the prayers for Revival in the churches, a voice against sin, a voice for righteousness, and of judgment to come. Although the ministry of most of the seven churches had a shady existence, there were those in these churches who were true in heart about their walk with God and He addressed that fact with each church. God's call to the churches, and more specifically to the individual, is REVIVAL!

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By 95 AD Jerusalem had already been devastated for 25 years, and many of the biological Jews scattered among the nations. False doctrine was increasingly taking a foothold in the Christian church; this problem existed almost from the very beginning of the New Testament church with Acts through Jude testifying to this fact. Those who were working to stay true to their uncompromising walk with Christ were travailing in prayer for REVIVAL.

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God has always had a remnant of Spirit filled uncompromising Christians and Intercessors in every generation. Those who tried to reform the Catholic doctrine back to biblical truth were murdered as heretics, until Martin Luther of the 16th century. Although the Catholic Church tried to quiet him they were unable to, and God's attempted renewal of the Biblical church of the book of Acts.

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Although the move to a full blown church Revival worldwide has been slow and arduous, over 500 years in coming, the past 300 years plus has been used by God to build toward it, with the renewal of the power and gifts of His Holy Spirit in a greater way filling increasing numbers of those receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life throughout the world, and with an insatiable hunger to know God in the depth of His personality and character; a true and deep intimacy with Him.  With the pursuit of those who want intimacy with God, there is still the existence of those who have only a liberal religious affiliation with Christ, being fueled by the liberal agenda and preaching of those who do not have God’s Power through the Holy Spirit flowing through the veins of their own spirit and soul. The Liberal preachers are among those for whom 2 Timothy 3:5 is written, "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away."  

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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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I have three published books that can be found online, type in the search bar of the Amazon website: “three Samuel Siders Books” and you will be directed to where they can be found.

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This past week I have a discussion with a person name Hisham who fell prey to a false cult Christology about Jesus which teaches there are two distinct Jesus; divine and human, rather than the Union of both. The false cult is called Nestorianism. What follows are the three responses I post for Hisham to defend against his Nestorianism belief:

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Hisham O ... If You - could - correctly - understand - John 1:25 you could answer your question about John 1:21. The "prophet" in both references is JESUS whom Moses was talking about in Deuteronomy 18:18-19 to ISRAELIS - Not - to Ishmael's descendants who were Not slaves in Egypt for over 400 years.

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FYI the word "Christ" in John 1:25 is - Not - talking about Jesus but a Military Leader which many Rabbis - Falsely - taught - Israelis would come to deliver them from their Enemies; at the time of Jesus the "enemies" where the Romans. Also, if you read John 1:45 you would Know John 1:25 and Deuteronomy 18:18-19 - IS - talking about JESUS.

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Hisham O ... You obviously are Confused about the True Jesus, and what part of this did you not understand "The "prophet" in both references is JESUS" to make the False claim: "So only Nestorians can say Jesus is prophet not you all." The BIBLE teaches the True Jesus is - not - Solely - a "prophet" it teaches He is More than that; one of which is the Only Begotten SON of God, which ALL Muslims and apparently You constantly Prove they have - Zero ability to understand - what BIBLICAL theology and Christology teaches about the True Jesus; Zero ability. The True Jesus is - not - two persons.

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Hisham O ... As for your second response our spirit and soul is who we are - not - our body; our body is only the shell it contains; therefore, IF you could understand this Fact anyone who claims there are Two Jesus' instead of One have a poor understanding, because Jesus' spirit and soul is deity being from Almighty God's Substance - not - His physical body that is created from Mary's Substance. Without the spirit and soul the body dies it does - not - continue to live as a second person when the spirit and soul leaves it.

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To read more responses I posted this past week my FB timeline can be visited. https://www.facebook.com/samuelsiders1   
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Samuel Siders 9/6/2026 [Go deep in your relationship with God not shallow.]