The first church was in the garden. Adam and Eve.
The second church was in the desert. Moses.
The third church was in the wilderness. Jesus.
The fourth church ...
I have to check revelation.. There seems to be 7.
Spiritually speaking.
Rev 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.
Noah and family after the flood was a church.
Abraham and family was a church.
Jacob and family was a church.
Always been forming and reforming.
The appearance of the 7th or last church looks kind of pathetic.
Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
like 7 heads maybe?
Rev 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Adam is also red.
Or mankind in general.
Maybe this beast/dragon is a combination of seven churches.
Reason I say this is because only in religion is there what is known as blasphemy.
Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and
upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
I wonder if God was the one who put a mark on this beasts heads and named it "Blasphemy" .
That is the name of this beast. Blasphemy.
What is blasphemy?
So since the beginning the "churches" each hand down it's knowledge from the prior church.
knowledge passed from Adam to Noah to Abraham... etc.. until Jesus and this present day.
And up until Jesus perhaps a lot of what was passed along as truth and knowledge was actually Blasphemy.
It wasn't perfect. Is was in a process of being formed.
And still is.
But now we have a Perfect example of what a perfect church should look like through Jesus.
But we have fallen into Laodicea knowledge.
This is the church today that has been formed by all these other churches that have come before.
Rev 3:15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Rev 3:16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
What is a church?
Act 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and
with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
These lively oracles, how have they shaped the church over the ages?
Have they perfected us or have they led us to also Blaspheme?
Apparently the "church" since the beginning wasn't getting it right, so Jesus came to set it straight.
Are we perfect yet?
There is still a lot of work to be finished.
That is why Paul said he came to finish the works, Jesus said he came to do the works of his father,
we are told to work in the edifying of the church, building eachother up.
But the church we started with, that one Adam created, it was flawed from the beginning.
And we been going down hill since then.
Because each new church that was born from the last church, instead of purging out the leaven and bad doctrines,
carried them forward to the next, until all the heads were sick.
Jesus came to heal the sick.
And some will come to the doctor to be healed and some will not.
just thinking out loud..
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