In fact, it has always been, grace, then this my brother is not our fantasies, this is the Eternal God in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself!
And how was it? It was bad thing, I confess to you.
Something sorrowful arose. A lot of dirt. The world is in the dirt, there is no doubt about it, in fact the world is dirt! But here are the saints in the mud. They smear each other with mud with pleasure. They sentence their co-religionists to eternal hell because of all sorts of nonsense. And they’ve been at war with each other for centuries. It seems that Christians have lost Christ. Gratitude is gone. So it was in Israel when the Philistines stole the Ark of the Covenant.
Christians accuse each other, criticize, fight as if they don’t have Christ! Yes, it looks like they don’t. After all, if there is no love, then it remains to rattle like a copper bell. And what is typical? The groupings are multiplying. And in every truth in the last resort. Your own. And I’m reading a book! The Lord Himself appears! Shining so that the apostle John faints! Can you imagine? There are seven stars in His hand!
Around Him are seven lamps – churches!
And what? Christ finds apostasy and convicts five of the seven angels of the churches. The deviations are various, some accusations of Christ sound like a sentence. For example: Revelation 3:1: “And write to the Angel of the church in Sardis: Thus says He who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your deeds; you bear a name as though you were alive, but you are dead.”
Do you hear? You are dead. Wow! Or here’s another: Revelation 3:17: “You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.” It seems to be better dead than blind and naked. However!
All seven angel-stars are in the hands of Christ! And all the churches-lamps surround Christ! And Christ, surrounded by all seven lamp-churches, the radiant Head of the Church, the Savior of the world!
Revelation 1:20: “The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels[ a] of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.”
That’s how it is! I’m sitting here now, scrubbing my gray head.
After all, if I condemned their community-doctrine-practice, it may turn out that I also condemned Christ. And what made it bitter! The Lord told me not to judge, for all judgment belongs to Him. And it turns out that I appropriated His power? It even got scary.
Lord have mercy. I won’t judge anymore.
Will love!
1 John 4:11: “Beloved, if God so loved us, then we must also love one another.”
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