Bible Matrix ⑦_151_REV 2:5 – Repent and do the things you did at first

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Bible Matrix ⑦_151_REV 2:5 – Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place

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Bible Matrix ⑦: Historical & Scientific Views on Daniel and Revelation

Part 2. Revelation

Revelation 2:1~7 - To the Church in Ephesus, perseverance but you have forsaken your first love

Revelation 2:5 – Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place

<Revelation> 2:5 - Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. (NIV); Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. (KJV)

○ <Revelation 2:5> is also not a praise, but a advice and a warning against the rebuke of 2:4. Jesus advises and warns, saying, “Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.”

○ “Repent and do the things you did at first” means “recover your first love by repenting”. However, it is not so easy to recover the first love you had for the first time. Can we recover the pure and the passionate first love we had at first? As time goes by and we get older, we tend to forget our first love.

○ If you do not restore your first love, Jesus will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. Moving the lampstand means closing the present church and setting the new one in another place. How can we interpret this? After all, from a historical point of view, not only the church in Ephesus, but all the other 6 churches have disappeared now? Does it mean that they didn't repent and restore their first love? Or can the seven churches which existed in AD 27~100 continue to exist for more than 2000 years?, and even for more than 6000 years?

☞ In 1453, the Ottoman Turk Empire took Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (AD 395~1453), thus, all of Turkey,  including the 7 churches, was islamized, and in 1914, Ephesus was Turkishized into Selcuk, and the church in Ephesus finally disappeared.