Biblical Church History

Following the Hand of God and the Hand of Satan

Church Reference Approx. date

Meaning

Ephesus Rev. 2:1-7 90 – 200 AD Fully purposedSmyrna Rev. 2: 8-11 200-325 AD Bitterness and

death Pergamos Rev. 2: 12-

17325-500 AD Much marriage

Thyatria Rev. 2: 18-29

500- 1000 AD

Oder of affliction

Sardis Rev. 3:1-6 1000- 1500 AD

Red ones

Philadelphia

Rev. 3: 7-13 1500- 1900 AD

Brotherly love

Laodicea Rev. 3:14-22

1900- Rapture

Civil rights

THE 7 PERIODS OF CHURCH HISTORY

Revelation 3:7-13c.1500-1900 A.D.

“Brotherly Love”

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Basic Understanding of the Philadelphian Church Period:• It is really nothing more than the King James Bible getting into the hands of the Bible believers, and them taking it to the ends of the world.•Whereas the domination of the RCC during the Thyatira and Sardis Church periods threw the world into utter darkness, with the entrance of the King James Bible into the world, it threw the world into blazing light!

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A. The Purifying

of the English Bible

“Brotherly love”

Philadelphia

DID SATAN KNOW WHAT WAS COMING…

… OR CAN HE COUNT?

The Spanish Armada

Plot to Kill King James

The translating of the Douay -Rheims Bible

II. The translators of

the (King James)

Authorized Bible

I. The CommissionRev. 3: 7a

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A. The proper

meaning of the name

“Brotherly love”

Philadelphia

(Rev 3:7) And to the angel of the church in

Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath

the key of David, he that openeth, and no man

shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

The word “Philadelphia” is made up of two Greek words meaning “Brotherly Love”In the church age of today, true brotherly love is when you drop doctrine and beliefs, to embrace all of the others that name the name of ChristIn contrast God so choose to use the name of Philadelphia to best describe a church period in which a group of believers would not bend this doctrine to bring a false unity. Instead their brotherly love was seen by taking the King James Bible to the ends of the earth.

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(Joh 17:19-21) And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither

pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe

on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also

may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou

hast sent me.

II. The CharacterRev. 3: 7b

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(Rev 3:7) And to the angel of the church in

Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is

holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of

David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and

shutteth, and no man openeth;

A. The Priority of the Word

(key of David) “Brotherly love”

Philadelphia

(1Sa 13:14) But now thy kingdom shall not

continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded

him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD

commanded thee.

1. Love for the Word• You can only find 2 times where David said he “loved the Lord) (Ps. 18:1; 116:1)

• You can find in Psalms 119 which is the heart of the Bible and longest chapter in the Bible, 11 times where David says “I love thy word”. 174 out of 176 versus directly mention the Word of God

• Compare this church period that had the “key of David” with a love for God’s word with the 1st Church period. (Rev 2:4)

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•After years of darkness with the absence of the Word, these men and women had a great love for the Bible

2. The Belief in the Word •This Church period was a time in which there was no debate on what was the Word of God. There were no one say things like “we now have better manuscripts” or “this was not in the original Greek

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3. The Action of the Word

•This Church didn’t just sit around bragging at the fact they had a King James Bible. They were dumb enough to believe that god gave them that to take it to the world.

•This is why this age is know as the “golden age of missions”

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III. The Commendation(Rev. 3: 8-13)

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(Rev 3:8-13) I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my

patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try

them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a

pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and

the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the

churches.

This is the only church that Christ has nothing Bad to say about them.

Compare that to the church age we are living in, where he has nothing good to say about it.

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A. The Propping

of the open door

(England) “Brotherly love”

Philadelphia

(Rev 3:8) I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for

thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not

denied my name.

Great Britain

•England’s motto“Sun never sets on the British Empire.”

•England becomes ruler over 25% of the land mass of the Earth.

• Over 700 thousand people become British citizens

Great Britain

•They spread the English language throughout these territories by missionary out of their country, taking the KJV and teaching them to read and to know God.

•This Island Country that is no bigger than Georgia, was used by God to reach the world for Christ, as long as they had a love for the word of God (key of David)

B. The new

Place of open the

door

(United States)

“Brotherly love”

Philadelphia

(Rev 3:9) Behold, I will make them of the

synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I

will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I

have loved thee.

(Gen 9:25-27) And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his

servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall

dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his

servant.

United States

•5600 years this land has been basically untouched and full of natural resources, and wide open. •(Est 4:14) For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

United States

•Spain went to the south (Mexico and South America) for the Gold and the RRC. followed them.

•France went to the north (Canada) for the fur And the RRC went with them.

•England went to the middle (USA) for the Gospel and the RRC bow down to them. (vs.9)

United States

•Our constitution is based on the KJV Bible. •God begins to move across this country in the same pattern as he has always East to West

•1639 1st Baptist Church is formed in Rhode Island by John Clarke and soon spread over the country

C. The Key

Players of the church age.

“Brotherly love”

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Count Zinzendorf (1700-1760)

He begins a missionary movement through a group called the MaravingsThey believed in separation from the world in order to reach the worldThey had a logo with an ox on an alter pulling a plow with the statement “ready for either”There are records of Maravings Missionaries that sold themselves in to slavery in order to reach the slaves.John Wesley came to America to preach and his preaching flopped. And a Maraving Missionary witnessed to him and he got saved.

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RichardBaxter

“I preach to never preach again, as a dying man to

dying men.”

George Fox

Started the Quaker Movement

John Bunyan

Writes the Book Pilgrims Progress

Spent most of his life in prison

Jonathan Edwards

God uses to preach the famous message

“Sinners in the hands of an angry God”

John Wesley

Starts the Methodist movement

Travels 250 thousand miles on horse back

42,000 sermons

233 Books and Pamphlets

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George Whitfield

Called the Prince of PreachersPreached 7 times a dayPreached until his throat bleedBen Franklin said, “When I hear him preach, I leave my money at home because I want to give it all.”He preached his last words from his bed with people gathered around his window and he said, “Lord Jesus I am weary in your work, but not of your work.”

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Robert Morrison

•Missionary to China

• Lived in a cellar for 35 years translating

the KJV into their language

Adoniram Judson

Missionary to BurmaStated “I will not leave Burma until the cross of Christ be firmly planted for ever.”30 years after his death there are 63 Baptist churches and 165 missionariesHis wife and daughters die in the mission fields and he sat on the grave for 2 days to keep the natives from eating the bodies

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George Mueller

Built 5 major orphanagesPrayed in 7.5 million dollarsFeed 2,000 orphans a dayDistributed 11 million tracts and 300 BiblesSupported over 163 missionaries

Read through the Bible over 200 times, 100 of them on his knees

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David Livingstone

Traveled 9000 miles on foot through the interior of Africa

When he died the African people loved him so much they cut out his heart and buried it there, before his body was sent back to England.

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Hudson Taylor

Missionary to ChinaPlanted 205 ChurchesTrained 849 Missionaries

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David Brainerd

Missionary to the American Indian

William Carey

Father of Modern Mission

Missionary to India

Spends 42 years there without a furlough.

Trained himself 6 languages

Translated the KJV in to 44 languages and dialects

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All of these men served in the greatest time of God’s power in

church history and never did any of these men speak in an unknown tongue, or exercise the gift of healing. They just

believed God and Preached the Word of God

All of these men had one book!

KJV