January 19, 2006

Eschatology Pt 3 (footnotes)

[1] 1 Cor 9:17, Eph 1:10, Eph 3:2 &
Col
1:25

[2] The seven churches, which were only seven of many which john could have chosen to address, seem to have been specifically chosen because of the significance of their names.
Ephesus
means “beloved” of perhaps “relaxation.”
Smyrna
means “myrrh” or “bitterness.” Pergamos means “high tower” or “thoroughly married.” Thyatira means “perpetual sacrifice” or “continual offering.”
Sardis
means “those escaping” or “renovation.”
Philadelphia
means “brotherly love.”
Laodicea
means “the people ruling or speaking” or “the judgment of the people.” Pentecost Pg 151-152

[3] Rev 2 & 3

[4] http://www.truthortradition.com/modules.php?News&file=article&sid=269

[5] http://www.biblebelievers.com/BlueDISP.html

[6] Elwell Pg 322

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; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA”>[7] I believe to be a Pentecostal is to acknowledge an experience with the Holy Spirit and not a denomination.

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism#Dispensationalist_theology

[9] Rom 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

[10] Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

[11] Rom 4:3 For what saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

[12] Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

[13] Eph 2:8

[14] Pentecost Pg 195 – 196

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[15] Isa 49:6 …I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Zec 2:11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people:

[16] Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

[17] Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

[18] Other than the

church
of
Laodicea

the others according to the Dispensationalist would have represented a church era which has now passed into history.

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