Bible Matrix ⑦_208_REV 3:1~2 – You are alive but you are dead....

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Bible Matrix ⑦_208_REV 3:1~2 – You are alive but you are dead, and your works not perfect before God

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

Part 2. Revelation

Revelation 3:1~6 - To the Church in Sardis, alive but you are dead, but a few people

Revelation 3:1~2 – You have a name or reputation that you are alive, but really you are dead, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God

☞ Revelation 3:1 - "To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. (NIV); “Write this to the ·angel [messenger; see 1:20] of the church in ·Sardis [ the capital of the Roman province of Lydia in western Asia Minor]: “The One [ the resurrected Jesus] who has the ·seven spirits [ referring either to angels or to the “sevenfold Spirit”—the Holy Spirit portrayed in his perfection; 1:4] and the seven stars [1:16] says ·this [ these things]: I know ·what you do [your works]. People say [ You have a name/reputation] that you are alive, but really you are dead. (EXB)

3:2 – Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. (NIV); Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. (KJV); Wake up! Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead. I find that your actions do not meet the requirements of my God. (NLT); Wake up! Strengthen what you have left ·before it dies completely [or which is about to die]. I have found that ·what you are doing is less than what my God wants [ your works are incompleted/unfulfilled before my God]. (EXB)

○ It says, “People say you have a name or reputation that you are alive, but really you are dead.“ (EXB). “For I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God” (NIV) means “for I have not found thy works perfect before God” (KJV), and “I find that your actions do not meet the requirements or wants of my God” (NLT/EXB), in other words, “Your works are incomplete or unfulfilled before my God” (EXB). Therefore, the meaning of these verses (or phrases) would be as follows.

(1) The church in Sardis, had been established by John the Apostle (AD 6~100) c.AD 27, started off really well that Clement (Philippians 4:3) was the first bishop, who was a disciple of Paul (AD 5~68) and one of the Seventy (Luke 10:1, 10:17) as 70 disciples of Jesus Christ, and Melito (died in c.180), the bishop in the 2nd century, gained a great fame and reputation, but the church in Sardis fell into complacency and formalism due to the economic stability and national peace. ☞ In the end, the Church in Sardis had a name and reputation, but they were dead.

(2) The beginning of the Reformation was remarkable, but as the spirit of reformation disappeared, reformers and their descendants were involved in doctrinal fights, got caught up in deism, and fought between the mainstream and the non-mainstream, thus resulting in Protestant denominations.

☞ For example, Lutherans in Germany, Huguenots and Calvinists in France, Zwinglian in Switzerland, etc. were created and settled into each denomination, thus the Protestant movement began to split and weaken.

☞ Furthermore, the Roman Catholic made a massive counterattack such as the eradication of Protestantism, so Protestantism gradually reached a catastrophe and fell into a stagnation that felt like it was dead. As a result, at the end of the 18th century, Protestantism split into Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Holiness Church, Full Gospel Church, etc.

☞ Thanks to the pioneers of the Reformation, they gained ‘a name and reputation of being alive’, but the result was incomplete and almost dead in the eyes of God the Father and Jesus Christ.