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There will come a time when His Chosen ones will no longer be ruled by the Jezebels of our day and other false authorities, for Jesus will rule. In turn, He will hand His rule over to those who are now overcoming and now keeping His deeds until the end. He will literally give His bondservants the power over the nations of the earth (in the Greek, the ethnicities of the world), and they will rule t...

Jesus is addressing the doctrine that is associated with the deep of Satan, specific teaching which captured the heart, minds, and soul of many believers. This teaching stands in stark contrast to the good teaching which resulted in deeds of “ agape love, and faith and service and perseverance ,” all of which were growing in that community of believers. What Satan wants is what he has always wante...

The Church at Thyatira Overall Theme1: The Word of God Must Be Our Ultimate Authority. Overall Theme 2: God Really Does Hate Religion—All the Unauthorized Things Done in His Name. We need to learn how the Spirit leads us in truth, and then only do what He is now leading us to do when He is leading us to do it. We must let His word be authoritative. Jezebel led her “children” of Thyatira into compr...

Overall Theme1: The Word of God Must Be Our Ultimate Authority.   Overall Theme 2: God Really Does Hate Religion—All the Unauthorized Things Done in His Name. In Thyatira, Jezebel, the prophetess, used her spiritual gifting as the basis for her authority in the church, notwithstanding the fact that she was channeling a spirit other than the Spirit of God. Therefore, Jesus makes a clear distin...

Jesus then says that if they do not repent, He will choose to now come quickly. This has overtones to His Second Coming . It also is a firm promise that He will come in their now and personally invade their time and space in judgment giving them the opportunity to learn why they should repent. Yahweh can go to war and with just a word bring about judgment and death. This may come through many agen...

There were those in Pergamum who put a stumbling block before these believers, just like Balaam did before the sons of Israel. This instruction seems to be all about relationship, or better said, unauthorized relationships, those not established by the Father. Instead of encouraging the people to wait on Yahweh Adonai and Yahweh Raah to provide relationship in His timing, they gave them reasons th...

Letter to Pergamum: Overall Theme: Wait for Me—I Will Satisfy! Jesus thoroughly understands the difficulties of living where Satan’s throne is set. Thus, His name is to be the filter through which we pass all things: all thoughts, emotions, experiences, and so on. He wants us to know Him by His name and to hold fast to his name by living desperately, needy for Him in all things all of the time. Th...

Most have not accepted God’s intention or purpose in our suffering, especially when much of it came early on in our lives at the hands of those who were responsible to love us and care for us. Accordingly, at the core of our being is a deep festering wound of betrayal that for most it is buried deep within, never to be seen or understood, but always impairing the quality of their relationships bot...

We come to the smallest letter which is addressed to the church at Smyrna. I like the fact that it is small because the message of this letter is all about suffering. Have you noticed when you talk to someone who is going through intense suffering, they do not want a lot of words or explanations? They tend to be good with just a few words of consolation and hope or with the comfort of someone’s pr...

Those at Ephesus had departed, fallen away, or apostatized from their relationship with Jesus. They had left their first love. What had gone wrong? They had stopped living by grace through faith—which is the vehicle by which God moves in-and-through our lives. Rather, they had become convinced that their works were in fact good and godly works. Yet, to live by grace through faith is that “ first w...

The letter to the church at Ephesus. Theme: God hates religion! The Ephesians took the business of religion seriously. They were strong advocates for the faith, exposing false teachers. But Ephesus was all about the work of their hands, what they could do for God. 6 times, Jesus mentions “your works”. They simply were not works that were sourced in Him. And they had left, fallen away, apostatized...

Nothing could prepare John to see the glorified Son of Man. His emotions were overrun as he tried to connect his previous experience with Jesus the man to this image of Jesus the glorified Son of Man. He simply could not do it, so he fell at his feet as though dead. Jesus is introduced as the First and the Last, which is a statement on His prophetic declarations. He declares what will be and He br...

Jesus speaks and identifies Himself as the Alpha and the Omega. Jesus being the “Alpha and Omega" communicates that He is eternal, outside of time, and all of time is held in His sovereign hands. He is the Lord God " who is and who was and who chooses to be coming, the Almighty ." “ Who is ” speaks of Jesus being the Hayah , for He is the “ I AM ”. [1] Being rendered in the present active particip...

John’s Commission and Introduction to our Lord God Almighty – the Alpha and the Omega. This is all about the unveiling of Jesus Christ more so than it is about the unveiling of future events. We must not ever divorce the person of Jesus Christ from the prophecies. They are first and foremost about Him as He is revealed over time. The Father gave Jesus this revelation to show His bondservants what...

The Tribulation is not the same as the Great Tribulation nor the time of the Lord’s Wrath. The Tribulation is comprised of two very distinct 3.5-year periods. The famed Great Tribulation , however, does not occur until AFTER an event called the Abomination of Desolation, which occurs during the middle, right between the two 3.5-year periods of time. The Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord’s...

Continuing with the Introduction, we cover some of the mysterious references to time: days, months, times, times, and half a time and they mysterious and merciful prophetic number of 3.5. the numbers reveal that in God’s province, mercy and judgment are intertwined and are to be understood synonymously, as His judgment in the now is a time of grace (mercy in judgment) intended to help people avoid...

To start any Biblical study, we need to do the customary who, what, where, when and why to frame for ourselves as much background information on this letter as possible. This gives us our context for applying this letter to our lives. Who is the Author? Who is the Audience? The What, the Where, the When and the Why of it all. We also touch on the historical setting, the Chronology of the book, and...

In the book of Revelation , we are given a view of how Yahweh sees things; it is a view like no other and is delivered from the perspective of the heavenlies though images of angels, demons, horses, scrolls, trumpets, bowls, thrones, dominions, kingdoms, a dragon, a Beast, a woman who rides the Beast, etc. This glimpse into the heavenly realms makes it extremely difficult for our earthly minds to...

“ ALL scripture is inspired by God ” (or literally, “God breathed”) [1] and therefore the truth is NOT dependent upon custom, convention, or the authors’ own choices separate from how the Spirit led them to write and express themselves. “ For no word of prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke form God ”. Throughout the Codex (the entirety of the Bibli...

We are continuing our exploration of what it means to live as a bondservant knowing WHY we can believe and trust ourselves completely to Jesus and practically HOW to bet our lives on His name. In so doing, we show mercy to others by choosing to deal with them not based on their sin, but on God’s perfect love and His perspective of the sin in our lives. It is how we consider others more important t...

We started this study in Jude 1 by understanding what it means to be a bondservant of Jesus Christ and we close this letter with solid instruction on what that practically looks like. First, we are to build each other up in our faith. This speaks to our neediness, it speaks to our inability, it speaks to our utter and desperate dependence upon God, and it speaks to our need-to-know God for whom He...

The Spirit is clear, we must ignore the boasts of these apostates and instead choose to listen to what the apostles of our Lord Jesus always said and stand for the truth. We all have a job to protect the body of Christ from apostasy. We must continue to shepherd one another and guard each other all the while willing to lead each other and to follow. We must be willing to stick together as a family...

When Yahweh comes, His purpose will be to execute judgment or literally to bring about crisis upon the ungodly. The idea being communicated is that this judgment is not going to be pretty, as this will be a reckoning. It will be very personal; thus, He is not going to send His angels to do His dirty work. Jesus Himself is going to bring judgment on ALL the ungodly for all the ungodly stuff they ha...

Autumn trees withouthttp://threshermediagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EP14-Jude-12-13-16.pdf fruit, doubly dead, uprooted. What would make us think that we could expect to receive anything from a tree in this condition? Yet, for some reason (as with the clouds without water), we come running to this doubly dead and uprooted tree looking for something to eat. Grumblers, malcontents, loud-mou...

The second statement in Triad 12 speaks of these teachers shepherding themselves without fear. The implication is that they are without the fear of Yahweh . These teachers, these dreamers are fools, for they do not allow themselves to be shepherded by wisdom and knowledge—by the fear of Yahweh . Rather, without fear, they shepherd themselves. The third statement in Triad 12 speaks of “ Clouds with...