Where are we going where have we been

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Where are we going where have we been?
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• Application
• Historical
• Devotional (Inspirational)
• Doctrinal (Prophetical)

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• 2nd Timothy 215 Study to shew thyself approved
  unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
  ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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• Revelation 41 - After this I looked, and,
  behold, a door was opened in heaven and the
  first voice which I heard was as it were of a
  trumpet talking with me which said, Come up
  hither, and I will shew thee things which must be
  hereafter.
• Revelation 1911 - And I saw heaven opened, and
  behold a white horse and he that sat upon him
  was called Faithful and True, and in
  righteousness he doth judge and make war.

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• Application
• Historical
• Devotional (Inspirational)
• Doctrinal (Prophetical)

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Daniel

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• Daniel 128-9 And I heard, but I understood
  not then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the
  end of these things? And he said, Go thy way,
  Daniel for the words are closed up and sealed
  till the time of the end.

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Where are we going where have we been?
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• 1 Thessalonians 416-17 For the Lord Himself
  shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
  voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
  God and the dead in Christ shall rise first
  Then we which are alive and remain shall be
  caught up together with them in the clouds, to
  meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be
  with the Lord.

• Revelation 41
• After this I looked, and, behold, a door was
  opened in heaven and the first voice which I
  heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
  me which said, Come up hither, and I will shew
  thee things which must be hereafter.

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Where are we going where have we been?

• Philadelphia

Seventh andSettled
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• The God of the Bible is the God of History.

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Acts
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Places
Antioch of Syria

• 1 of the 1st Deacons was from Antioch (Acts
  61-5)
• The 1st great Gentile awakening was in Antioch.
  (Acts 1119-21)
• The Disciples were 1st called Christians at
  Antioch. (Acts 1125-26a)
• The 1st Bible Teachers were in the church at
  Antioch. (Acts 131)
• The 1st Missionaries were sent out from the
  church at Antioch. (Acts132,3)

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Places
Alexandria Egypt

• Alexandrians were a part of a group that disputed
  with Stephen. (Acts 69-13)
• Alexandria is connected with bad Bible teaching.
  (1824-26 19-1-5)
• It is a ship from Alexandria that takes Paul to
  Rome and his ultimate death. (276 2811)

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The Roman Catholic Church(Rev. 17)
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• 1st Timothy 63 If any man teach otherwise,
  and consent not to wholesome words, even the
  words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the
  doctrine which is according to godliness

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• 2nd Timothy 113 Hold fast the form of sound
  words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and
  love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Titus 21 But speak thou the things which
  become sound doctrine

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• Ephesus

Montanists

• Smyrna

Novatians

• Pergamos

Donatists
Paulicians

• Thyatira

• Sardis

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Sardis- Faithful Few
Cathari, Bogomils, Abigenses,
Waldenses, Henricians, Bulgarians,
Petrobusians, Arnoldists, Lollards, Hussites
Ana Baptist
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Faithful Few-1600-2008
Separatists, Norrisites,
Dispensationalists,
Fundamentalists
Baptist
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• Ephesus

• Pergamos

• Sardis

90-200 A.D.
325-500 A.D.
1000-1500 A.D.

• Smyrna

• Thyatira

200-325 A.D.
500-1000 A.D.
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• Psalms 119130 The entrance of thy words
  giveth light it giveth understanding unto the
  simple.
• Psalms 119105 Thy word is a lamp unto my
  feet, and a light unto my path.

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Where are we going where have we been?

• Philadelphia

Seventh andSettled
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• Ephesus

Fully Purposed

• Smyrna

Bitterness/Death

• Pergamos

Much Marriage
Odor of Affliction

• Thyatira

• Sardis

Red Ones
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John Wycliffe
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• England

John Wycliffe

• Bohemia

John Huss

• Italy

Jerome Savonarola

• Germany

Martin Luther

• Swiss

Ulrich Zwingli
John Calvin

• Geneva

John Knox

• Scots

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The Roman Catholic Church(Rev. 17)
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• Ecclesiastes 314-15 - I know that, whatsoever
  God doeth, it shall be for ever nothing can be
  put to it, nor any thing taken from it and God
  doeth it, that men should fear before him. That
  which hath been is now and that which is to be
  hath already been and God requireth that which
  is past.

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• Job 4112-14 I will not conceal his parts, nor
  his power, nor his comely proportion. Who can
  discover the face of his garment? or who can come
  to him with his double bridle? Who can open the
  doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round
  about.

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Its time for the Protestants to go to the
shepherd (the Pope) and say What do we have to
do to come home?

• Robert Schuller - September 19, 1987 Los Angeles
  Herald

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The Roman Catholic Church(Rev. 17)
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Where are we going where have we been?

• Philadelphia

Seventh andSettled
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• England

John Wycliffe

• Bohemia

John Huss

• Italy

Jerome Savonarola

• Germany

Martin Luther

• Swiss

Ulrich Zwingli
John Calvin

• Geneva

John Knox

• Scots

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John Wycliffe
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• Lollards Babblers

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Wycliffe, by thus translating the Bible made it
property of the masses and common to all and EVEN
WOMEN who were able to read

• The Roman Catholic Church on Wycliffe

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Nicolaitanes(to conquer the laity- the
common man )
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The Gospel is thrown before sinners and trodden
under foot and that which use to be so dear to
both clergy and laity has become COMMON to the
laity

• The Roman Catholic Church on Wycliffe

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• Psalms 126-7 The words of the LORD are pure
  words as silver tried in a furnace of earth,
  purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O
  LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this
  generation for ever.

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The Wycliffe Bible (1382)

• The Tyndale Bible (1525)

• The Coverdale Bible (1535)

• The Matthew Bible (1537)

• The Great Bible (1539)

• The Geneva Bible (1525)

• The Bishops Bible (1539)

• The King James Bible (1611)

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Where are we going where have we been?

• Philadelphia

Seventh andSettled