The+Church+at+Pergamos+Divine+Promise%2FInvitation+%282%3A17%29.jpg' alt='Pergamum The Promise' title='Pergamum The Promise' />Discover The Book Ministries Pergamum, Balaam and How Romanism Entered the Church. As we open to Revelation 2 1. Christs message to the saints at Pergamum, the story behind these words actually starts way back in the book of Genesis with the life of Abraham. Follow along in your Bibles Revelation 2 1. NKJV But I have a few things againstyou, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. The saints at Pergamum had gotten too close to the wickedness of the idol worship around them. They had slowly gotten comfortable going back to the old haunts of those idols they had been saved out of and away from. Then, overcome by the temptations and lusts of the flesh, they gave in to sinful practices. Idolatry is very hard to resist. Pergamum+%3D+Mixed+Marriage.jpg' alt='Pergamum The Promise' title='Pergamum The Promise' />Beware of. Idols. Turn back a few pages with me to the last chapter of I John. Always remember that the very last warning the Apostle John gave to the Church was in v. John 5 2. 1 NKJV Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. Abraham was. Saved from Idolatry. About 2. 00. 0 B. C. God called Abraham away from all the idolatry of Babylon. Pergamum The Promise' title='Pergamum The Promise' />Abram lived in Ur of the Chaldees. Babylon was also known as the realm of the Chaldeans. Ea Sports Cricket 2007 Serial Key. Abram was an idolator, he worshipped the images of the gods of his land. God saved him out of that idol worship. Listen to Joshua Joshua 2. NKJV And Joshua Said To All The People, Thus Says The Lord God Of Israel Your Fathers, Including Terah, The Father Of Abraham And The Father Of Nahor, Dwelt On The Other Side Of The River In Old Times And They Served Other Gods. Then I Took Your Father Abraham From The Other Side Of The River, Led Him Throughout All The Land Of Canaan, And Multiplied His Descendants And Gave Him Isaac. When God saved Abram from idols, and then God led him into the Promised Land, and gave him the nation of Israel as his descendents. But a thousand years later, in the ninth century B. C., Israel had returned to the same idol worship Abraham had been saved from, under the influence of wicked Jezebel see 1 Kings 1. At this time the cult was worshiped under the name of Baal. By the time of the prophet Jeremiah, the idolatrous worship of Babylons religion, Abraham was saved from, permeated the nation of Israel. Please turn with me to Jeremiah 4. Posted by admin at 2335 Tagged with antichrist, Profetieen 4 Responses to Turkey As The Antichrist Nation Seven Scriptural Proofs Turkey Fallen To The. Forsaken First Love Distinctive Features About the Seven Churches Before actually beginning the exposition of the message to Ephesus, it would be helpful to. Subscribe to media Podcast Our entire sermon library back thru 2009 is available from this page. Bible class recordings are available in the Member section of the. Christianity/revelation/Revelation2/Pegumum.jpg' alt='Pergamum The Promise' title='Pergamum The Promise' />New International Version To the angel of the church in Pergamum write These are the words of him who has the sharp, doubleedged sword. New Living Translation. The Seven Churches of Revelation, also known as the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse and the Seven Churches of Asia, are seven major churches of Early Christianity. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Foreword These lessons in Revelation are compiled from the writings of Dr. Grant C. Richison, which were published on the Internet beginning in 1997 in the Campus. The Coming Tribulation A History of the Apocalypse. Part 2A The Seven Churches of Revelation The Seven Churches Revelation 21 322 by Dr. Robert D. Luginbill. Ways of Christ. Additions to part 2. The 7 Churches of the Revelation, and the Churches of today and questions of the oecumene with excerpts from the Revelation 1. As we open to Revelation 21415, and see the next section of Christs message to the saints at Pergamum, the story behind these words actually starts way back in. Jeremiah 4. 4 The Queen of Heavens Idolatous Religion. The words Queen of Heaven are found in five verses in the Bible Jeremiah 7 1. In Jeremiah, we are introduced to this whole idolatrous form of worship. Jeremiah 4. 4 1. NKJV But we will certainly do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well off, and saw no trouble. Pergamum The Promise' title='Pergamum The Promise' />But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine. The women also said, And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands permission2. So the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, an astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as it is this day. Do you know where the queen of Heaven came from  It came right out of Egyptian idolatry, Isis and Osiris. It has nothing to do with the New Testament at all. Adobe Premiere Pro Cs3 Presets. And if you have ever heard that Roman Catholics say the Queen of Heaven is Mary, and wondered where that came fromlook at these words in Ezekiel 8 1. The prophet Ezekiel is taken by God into the temple, the house of God and he sees that there are idols there and God is very unhappy. And just to see what is offending God so greatly, hes shown this scene Ezekiel 8 1. NKJV And He said to me, Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing. So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORDs house and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz. So He brought me into the inner court of the LORDs house and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east. There it is, the idolatry of Babel exported to Israel the worship of the virgin goddess in Jeremiah 4. Exekiel 8. Semiramis, Lent Romanism. Let me just give you some interesting details from a book entitled, The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop. The worship of Semiramis throughout history has often had these elements Semiramis was called the Queen of Heaven Semiramis was worshipped by the offering of a wafer, or cake Semiramis began the practice of 4. Tammuz before the feast of celebrating his resurrection. These mystery cults around Semiramis also had purgatory, which they taught and believed and adhered to. The worship of Mary as the Queen of Heaven and the 4. Lent for her Son, has no basis in Scripture, but rather developed from the pagan celebration of Semiramiss mourning for forty days over the death of Tammuz before his alleged resurrectionanother of Satans mythical counterfeits. The majority of those who call themselves Christians in our world today follow a way of worship that would have offended the apostles and early saints. What do I mean The statues of Mary, calling her the Queen of Heaven, the images of Christ and saints and all of them being revered with candles and incense burning before them are idolatrous. God through His Word calls each of us to always be on guard and to BEWARE OF THE NEW PAGANISM IN THE CHURCH What are some of the pagan rites that have crept into the Church To name a few would be The incense burning before images, the orders of priests and monks that are so contradictory to Christ like humility, the calendar of observances that each originate with pagan events that have only been reneamed with Christian events, the titles of pagan priests like Pontifex Maximus, pontiff, vicar, and most excellent. Then there are also all the pagan originated and never recorded in the Bible practices like holy water, purgatory, prayers for the dead, indulgences, and so much more. All of these names, observances, and practices came directly from the pagans the very pagans that the early saints tried to convert  Now look back at our text in Revelation 2 1. Christs ADMONITIONv. Revelation 2 1. 4 1. NKJV But I have a few things againstyou, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. The saints at Pergamum had gotten too close to the wickedness around them. They had slowly gotten comfortable going back to the old haunts they had been saved out of and away from. Then, overcome by the lusts of the flesh, they gave in to sinful practices.