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To the Seven Churches

The Traits of Babylon (Team Dragon):

• Anti-God/ Idolatry (Rev 13:5; Gen 11:4; Dan 3:4)
• Opulence (Rev 18:3; Isa 51:7; Dan 3:1)
• Murderous and Dehumanizing (Rev 17:6; Dan 3:19; Hab 1:13-17)
• Image/ Vanity (Rev 17:8; Gen 11:4)
• Militaristic Domination (Rev 17:13; Isa 31:1-2)
• Economically exploitative (Rev 18:3, 11-13; Jer 51:34-35; Lam 4:5; )
• Arrogance (Rev 18:7; Isa 47:7-8, Zeph 2:15)

Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)

[12] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)

[12] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against [Team Dragon] in the heavenly places.

A message for every church: He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (Rev 2:7,11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22)

Ephesus: So focused on believing rightly, but not concerned with loving rightly

Babylon: Arrogance

Revelation 2:2–5a (ESV)

[2] “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. [3] I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. [4] But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. [5] Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.

Smyrna: Do not fear.

Babylon: Forcing apostasy through economic oppression, imprisonment, and violent persecution

Revelation 2:9–10 (ESV)

[9] “‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. [10] Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Pergamum: Have the model of a faithful witness, but are idolatrous and compromising holiness

Babylon: Anti-God

Revelation 2:14–15 (ESV)

[14] But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. [15] So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

Thyatira: They express faithful witness, but are idolatrous and compromising holiness

Babylon: Anti-God teachings

Revelation 2:20 (ESV)

[20] But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Sardis: Everything they do is for show.

Babylon: Image/ Vanity

Revelation 3:1b (ESV)

“‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Philadelphia: Patiently enduring through keeping the word of the Lord

Babylon: Resisting

Revelation 3:8–9 (ESV)

[8] “‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. [9] Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.

Laodicea: Lukewarm, neither refreshing nor healing

Babylon: Oppulence produced arrogance

Revelation 3:15–17 (ESV)

[15] “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! [16] So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. [17] For you say, “I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing,” not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.