The Seven Churches of Asia were, or would soon be, at the time of John’s writing, centers of the cult of emperor worship. Everyone, except the Jews, were required to sacrifice to the emperor. To one of the churches Jesus said, “I know where you live, where Satan has his throne.” This was one of the emperor temples. The ‘synagogue of Satan’ was a synagogue that had banished believers in Jesus from their midst, and was working with Roman authorities to identify these people. Christians were tempted to return to Judaism to escape persecution by the authorities. This was the backdrop of the Epistle to the Hebrews. The message of Jesus, given to the churches by John in Revelation had immediate relevance to the church(es). Eventually, emperor worship became universal throughout the Roman Empire, under Diocletian, around A.D. 300. During his reign was the most systematic and terrible persecution of The Church, called ‘The Great Persecution’. (Kind of sounds like The Great Tribulation, huh?)
There’s
ABSOLUTELY NO POSSIBLE WAY
the bulk of the END TIMES prophecies
were fulfilled in AD70 or any other time between Christ and now.
No way.
The violence one has to do to
A) SCRIPTURE
and
B) TRUE HISTORY
is INCREDIBLE.
Even a giant shoehorn wouldn’t work.
It truly boggles my mind that folks who are otherwise literate and informed on some things can remotely believe even a fraction of such garbage.
The Seven Churches of Asia were, or would soon be, at the time of John’s writing, centers of the cult of emperor worship. Everyone, except the Jews, were required to sacrifice to the emperor. To one of the churches Jesus said, “I know where you live, where Satan has his throne.” This was one of the emperor temples. The ‘synagogue of Satan’ was a synagogue that had banished believers in Jesus from their midst, and was working with Roman authorities to identify these people. Christians were tempted to return to Judaism to escape persecution by the authorities. This was the backdrop of the Epistle to the Hebrews. The message of Jesus, given to the churches by John in Revelation had immediate relevance to the church(es). Eventually, emperor worship became universal throughout the Roman Empire, under Diocletian, around A.D. 300. During his reign was the most systematic and terrible persecution of The Church, called ‘The Great Persecution’. (Kind of sounds like The Great Tribulation, huh?)Fascinating -- what do the Eminem guys (rap-ture ;-P) say to that?
>> “The Seven Churches of Asia were, or would soon be, at the time of John’s writing, centers of the cult of emperor worship.” <<
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Read the letter to the Philadelphian church, and then repent of your attack on the word of God.
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